Posted by Coyote on October 10, 2007
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Posted by Coyote on June 24, 2007
United Nations Treaties and Principles
On Outer Space, UN, New York, 2002
Do international treaties and laws impede the development of space-based solar power?
Last week at small symposium in Colorado, a professor of space law argued that the profits from any resource harvested from space, to include energy, must be shared with all of humanity and that this principle is enshrined in Article I of the Outer Space Treaty of 1967:
“The exploration and use of outer space, including the Moon and other celestial bodies, shall be carried out for the benefit and in the interests of all countries, irrespective of their degree of economic or scientific development, and shall be the province of all mankind.”
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