NDLI: Castles in the Air: Debunking the Space Settlement Prize

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Castles in the Air: Debunking the Space Settlement Prize

Content Provider	Semantic Scholar
Author	Gangale, Thomas
Copyright Year	2008
Abstract	Alan Wasser has proposed federal legislation that would have the United States recognize extraterrestrial claims to real property, based on a unilateral reinterpretation of the 1967 Outer Space Treaty. The Space Settlement Initiative appears on the National Space Society website, although the NSS has not endorsed it. Both the Artemis Society and the Moon Society have endorsed the initiative. The issue of private property rights in outer space has been one of high visibility in the American citizen pro-space movement for more than a quarter-century, and the issue has profound policy ramifications in both the near term (because the proposal is a current subject of debate) and long term (because, if enacted, it would a have dramatic effect on international space law and would shape the future commercial development of outer space). What is the case for or against the current international legal regime? Has it indeed impeded space development? Are there certain claims of national sovereignty and private property that can be asserted under the present international law of outer space? If not, should changes be made to permit such claims? In what directions should the international law of outer space develop? The libertarian agenda to tear down the international legal regime of outer space is not only based on the erroneous premise that it presents a barrier to private enterprise, but that the success of this agenda would create legal uncertainty, thereby tending to discourage investment, as well as set the stage for armed conflict in outer space. The Space Settlement Initiative turns international law on its head, as well as relying on a distorted rewriting of history, misunderstanding of legal principles, and a new adventure in voodoo economics.
File Format	PDF HTM / HTML
DOI	10.2514/6.2008-1466
Alternate Webpage(s)	http://www.astrosociology.com/Library/PDF/ASM2008_CastlesInTheAir.pdf
Alternate Webpage(s)	https://doi.org/10.2514/6.2008-1466
Language	English
Access Restriction	Open
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article

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