The rules issued today by the Federal Aviation Administration mandate training and medical fitness evaluations for crew members, preflight testing and other steps US companies must take before getting licences to carry paying passengers on suborbital flights.
Virgin Galactic, run by British entrepreneur Richard Branson, is aiming to offer out-of-this-world vacations in 2008 for travellers willing to pay $US200,000 ($256,000). Other companies are making similar plans.
The FAA regulations were required under legislation Congress passed two years ago, in the wake of the successful 2004 flights of a privately financed manned rocket over California's Mojave Desert.
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