Space and astronomy news
After a year of consultation, interviews, and intensive review, the Space Generation Advisory Council’s EAGLE team has released a document on how humanity can live cooperatively and peacefully on the Moon – the Lunar Governance Report!
NASA just released a series of principles designed to foster exploration and cooperation in lunar exploration, called the Artemis Accords.
The Trump administration just signed an executive order that has given the green light to asteroid and lunar mining and other commercial ventures in space.
The OpenLuna Foundation wants to create a base on the Moon using crowdsourcing and open-source technology to allow the public to take part in lunar colonization.
Despite the vagaries of international law, no matter what a slick business person tells you, there is no land for sale on the Moon. NONE!
There have been several proposals in recent months to visit asteroids — NASA is talking about sending astronauts to an asteroid sometime, and both Planetary Resources and Deep Space Industries have outlined distant plans to mine these space rocks for resources. But once the stuff is extracted, who does it belong to? A bill being …
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