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Trump signs an executive order allowing mining the moon and asteroids:
In 2015, the Obama administration signed the U.S. Commercial Space Launch Competitiveness Act (CSLCA, or H.R. 2262) into law. This bill was intended to "facilitate a pro-growth environment for the developing commercial space industry" by making it legal for American companies and citizens to own and sell resources that they extract from asteroids and off-world locations (like the moon, Mars or beyond).
On April 6th, the Trump administration took things a step further by signing an executive order that formally recognizes the rights of private interests to claim resources in space. This order, titled "Encouraging International Support for the Recovery and Use of Space Resources," effectively ends the decades-long debate that began with the signing of the Outer Space Treaty in 1967.
This order builds on both the CSLCA and Space Directive-1 (SD-1), which the Trump administration signed into law on December 11th, 2017. It establishes that "Americans should have the right to engage in commercial exploration, recovery, and use of resources in outer space, consistent with applicable law," and that the United States does not view space as a "global commons."
(Score: 2) by driverless on Tuesday April 14 2020, @11:05AM (1 child)
Yes they will. Earth will try and established control via Earthforce, then later during the Earth-Minbari War things go downhill when Mars declares neutrality, but Mars only actually declared independence after President Clark starts hitting civilian targets there.
(Score: 2) by Thexalon on Tuesday April 14 2020, @03:07PM
Unless, of course, that Earth military is led by Richard Nixon and Zapp Brannigan, in which case they'll gain independence almost immediately.
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