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The US doesn't consider it a violation. It grants private entities ownership of extracted resources, not celestial bodies.
by zardo 11y ago
The US doesn't consider it a violation. It grants private entities ownership of extracted resources, not celestial bodies.
- btilly 11y agoUpon reading the text of the treaty, I thought it was clearly a violation. But reading http://www.sciencerecorder.com/news/2015/11/18/u-s-space-mining-bill-run-afoul-outer-space-treaty/ http://www.sciencerecorder.com/news/2015/11/18/u-s-space-min... shows that there is a debate with opinions split on whether it violates. My belief remains that if you set up mining on an asteroid, you've appropriated it "...by means of use or occupation...". And this the USA has agreed to not do, nor to let its nationals do.