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posted by Fnord666 on Tuesday April 14 2020, @08:52AM   Printer-friendly
from the that's-just-loony dept.

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."


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  • (Score: 3, Interesting) by barbara hudson on Tuesday April 14 2020, @06:45PM (3 children)

    by barbara hudson (6443) <barbara.Jane.hudson@icloud.com> on Tuesday April 14 2020, @06:45PM (#982715) Journal

    Either we expand into space, or we face eventual stagnation and decline on Earth in the not too distant future.

    "In COVID We Trust "

    One way or another the population is going to g o down.

    And once disease, hunger, and poverty get on a roll, the trend will feed off itself. One side effect of COVID19 is that hundreds of millions will not be vaccinated for measles. Multiply this by a few other diseases and much of the developing world is doomed.

    China is going to discover that its belt and road strategy bought it dominance over a burdensome hellhole in parts of Asia and Africa, not the billions of captive consumers they planned for.

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  • (Score: -1, Spam) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday April 14 2020, @08:41PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday April 14 2020, @08:41PM (#982768)

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  • (Score: 4, Interesting) by maxwell demon on Wednesday April 15 2020, @08:12AM (1 child)

    by maxwell demon (1608) on Wednesday April 15 2020, @08:12AM (#982975) Journal

    I don't think China's main goal is to win consumers in Africa and Asia. Rather they want the resources.

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    • (Score: 2) by Immerman on Wednesday April 15 2020, @07:12PM

      by Immerman (3985) on Wednesday April 15 2020, @07:12PM (#983162)

      I've got to agree - China seems to be looking for Africa to do for them, what they did for the U.S. and Europe - provide cheap resources, labor, and places to dump trash and pollution rather than their own back yard.