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Trump Signs an Executive Order Allowing Mining the Moon and Asteroids

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

upstart writes in with an IRC submission for Bytram:

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: 2) by maxwell demon on Wednesday April 15 2020, @08:22AM (1 child)

    by maxwell demon (1608) on Wednesday April 15 2020, @08:22AM (#982976) Journal

    Sadly we have evil people on this planet. Some types have been killing and taking over others for centuries. They just take.

    Yeah, typically they are the people in power.

    They may very well claim the moon as their prophet split it and reformed it centuries ago.

    As far as I know, of all the nations likely to claim the moon, none follows a prophet who is claimed to have split it.

    Those I know to have space programs have Christian background (USA, Russia, EU — yes, the latter is not a nation, but it applies to all the nations in it), Hindu background (India), or Confucianist background (China).

    Can you tell me any country with Islamic background that has a space program?

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday April 15 2020, @03:46PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday April 15 2020, @03:46PM (#983094)

    A space program is not required to claim the moon. Some people will wage war over anything logic be damned.

    Also, Islam has taken over India. It's only a matter of time now.