A License to Return Home to Earth?: Where in the Constitution Does it Give the Federal Government the Authority?

The Federal Aviation Administration is selling licenses to return home to earth. Is there nothing you can do anymore in which the Federal Government isn't involved? Where is their Constitutional authority to require those who wish to travel to outer space a license to back home to earth?

Apparently, if you don't get a license from the federal government, you are going to live the rest of your life in outer space or face huge fines for not getting their permission to travel to the "final frontier."

Technology entrepreneur Elon Musk's California-based space launch firm has become the first commercial company to receive a Federal Aviation Administration license to allow an orbiting spacecraft to return to Earth.

Hawthorne-based SpaceX says the FAA issued the license Monday.

SpaceX plans a December launch of one of its Falcon 9 rockets carrying a capsule dubbed Dragon. The mission calls for the capsule to go into low-Earth orbit then re-enter the atmosphere and land in the ocean.


This federal government knows how to kill the spirit of American, which has always been based on the adventure of travel.