Borgen on Bilder on Mining He-3 on the Moon
My Opinio Juris colleague Chris Borgen has a post up commenting on a new paper by Richard Bilder on SSRN on legal issues involved in mining for Helium 3 on the Moon. The paper, which I’ve just read...
View ArticleSpace Law and the UN, Retro Edition
The UN Secretary General ... circa 2050, Earth, talking with Kip who, along with Peewee, has just saved the Earth from invading aliens who were using the Moon as a forward base: “Russell, I heard on...
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Spirit: A Sad Robot Story from XKCD
XKCD adds: “On January 26, 2010, 2274 Mars days into the mission, NASA declared ‘Spirit’ a ‘stationary research station” expected to stay operational for several more months until the dust buildup on...
View ArticleUnderstanding Inception
Inception is a great movie. Perhaps one of the greatest of all time. You should see it without reading reviews, or learning anything about the film beforehand. For those of you who have seen it, some...
View ArticleWhat Law Will Govern Space Tourism?
Over at Opinio Juris, a scholarly exchange on the question of space tourism and the law that would underlie it. Steven Freeland, commenting on his own article in the Melbourne Journal of International...
View ArticleNeil Armstrong on Private Spaceflight
It appears that earlier reports that Neil Armstrong opposes private manned spaceflight are incorrect. The first man to walk on the Moon actually welcomes private “newcomers” in the field. It’s worth...
View ArticleWhite House Says We Won’t Build the Death Star
The Obama White House knew, of course, that creating a web-based system for ordinary citizens to call on the government to do something, and promising a response if 25,000 people or more sign an online...
View ArticleProperty Rights on the Moon?
Space law scholar Glenn Reynolds (AKA Instapundit) has an interesting USA Today column on the potential development of property rights on the Moon: On Saturday, a Chinese lunar probe made the first...
View ArticleNeil Armstrong on Private Spaceflight
It appears that earlier reports that Neil Armstrong opposes private manned spaceflight are incorrect. The first man to walk on the Moon actually welcomes private “newcomers” in the field. It’s worth...
View ArticleWhite House Says We Won’t Build the Death Star
The Obama White House knew, of course, that creating a web-based system for ordinary citizens to call on the government to do something, and promising a response if 25,000 people or more sign an online...
View ArticleProperty Rights on the Moon?
Space law scholar Glenn Reynolds (AKA Instapundit) has an interesting USA Today column on the potential development of property rights on the Moon: On Saturday, a Chinese lunar probe made the first...
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