Once you look at things that broadly then there are a lot of ways to prevent a launch. If SpaceX stole its rocket components from another company, then the loca

Once you look at things that broadly then there are a lot of ways to prevent a launch. If SpaceX stole its rocket components from another company, then the local police could shut them down too. We know it's acceptable for NASA astronauts to be in a far more dangerous workplace environment than the workers who built their rockets, so I don't see why a SpaceX crew would have the same safety requirements as a builder of a SpaceX rocket. For example, from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human-rating_certification https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human-rating_certification I see NASA's requirement for human-rated space travel is a mission loss risk of "no more than 1 in 270" for "up to 210 days". Given that SpaceX has roughly 10,000 employees, that would be about 30 employee deaths per year - far higher than most workplaces. My ill-informed belief is that safety requirements for a private mission to Mars would fall under FAA jurisdiction, not OSHA. At the very least, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federal_Aviation_Administration https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federal_Aviation_Administratio... says "The first FAA licensed orbital human space flight took place on November 15, 2020"