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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: 2) by Phoenix666 on Wednesday April 15 2020, @11:00AM

    by Phoenix666 (552) on Wednesday April 15 2020, @11:00AM (#982990) Journal

    And when it happens, there will be douchebags then who will have been harping on about it and will feel very smart having predicted it when rather it was their random fortune to have been born at that time in history.

    In other words, if you correctly identify a trend, its causes, and its progression to its culmination, you're a douchebag. Only those who bury their heads in the sand are brave and smart and cool, like you.

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