space law
NASA offers to buy lunar samples to set space resources precedent
NASA is offering to buy lunar samples collected by companies for a token sum primarily to set a precedent for space resource rights on the moon.
Op-ed | Where does space begin? The decades-long legal mission to find the border between air and space
No one at present can say with certainty – from a legal perspective – where the “Earth” ends and where “outer space” begins.
Congress Defends Commercial Space Bill’s Resource Rights Provisions
With the biggest commercial space bill in more than a decade now signed into law, members of Congress and their staffs are now turning their attention to reports required by the new law as well as other legislation.
Op-ed | One Small Step for Space Resources
In the 1970s, Barry “Moon Man” McArdle sold lunar real estate for $1 per acre, with the caveat that rights were not yet secured. The space resources legislation President Obama just signed into law includes a similar proviso.
