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US and international law conflicts about who would be in charge if a private company established a Moon base or colonized Mars.
Australia is a member of the 1979 Moon Treaty, which sets rules for resource extraction from outer space. Now that the Trump administration is eyeing moon mining, will Australian companies join in?
