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Really big things must be built in outer space from materials that that are available without fighting the Earth's gravity well. The Moon appears to be the ideal place to source materials if the mining, processing and lunar launch infrastructure existed.

The Moon Treaty is fully consistent with the Outer Space Treaty with the added element that it provides for the development of rules to govern the extraction and use of lunar resources. There are straightforward principles stated in Article 11, par. 7 of the Treaty for the formulation of the...

Thank you for this post! For the past two years the UN Committee on the Peaceful Uses of Outer Space has been working on Space Agenda 2030 whose theme is " space as the driver of sustainable development" sometimes also stated as "Space - a driver for peace." Kennedy's words fit well with...