US and international law conflicts about who would be in charge if a private company established a Moon base or colonized Mars.
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Governments and corporations must get serious about the legal, technical, economic, social and ethical implications of a potential space-based resource economy.
No country can lay claim to sovereignty over a planet, moon or rocky body. But in the absence of clear laws regulating mining in space, it’s a case of first in, best dressed for resource extraction.
