In April 2020, U.S. President Donald Trump signed an executive order to support moon mining. This has created an international legal controversy on mining rights for profit. US accused of trying to colonise space with mining the moon executive order Scientists say planets in danger of becoming another 'arena for war' between Spacefarers US and Russia President Trump signs an executive order asking all nations to team with the US in going lunar. Trump Backs Moon Mining Initiative With Executive Order By Michael Kern - Apr 09, 2020, 10:00 AM CDT. (Joseph Curl) President Trump has signed an executive order establishing U.S. policy on the use of off-Earth resources, including mining of the moon’s water ice and other natural resources, as well as tapping asteroids passing by. Which may be the very thing that Of course, Jones knows a thing or two about Moon mining, as his 2009 Obviously, Jones isn’t the only one with thoughts on the matter. On Monday, the president signed the executive order, titled Encouraging International Support for the Recovery and Use of Space Resources. Trump signs an executive order allowing mining the moon and asteroids. Moon (Credit: Sony Pictures Classics) We just got one step closer to mining the Moon, and Duncan Jones has some thoughts
Or as the order says, the U.S. will seek to negotiate “joint statements and bilateral and multilateral arrangements with foreign states regarding safe and sustainable operations for the public and private recovery and use of space resources.”Granted, as with any order that comes from this executive, we’ll have to do some heavy digging to uncover all the fine print. Even with all the uncertainty surrounding the coronavirus epidemic, along with its potential effect on the current bill before congress that could delay “Successful long-term exploration and scientific discovery of the Moon, Mars, and other celestial bodies will require partnership with commercial entities to recover and use resources, including water and certain minerals, in outer space,” the order states early on.The order goes on to re-reject 1979’s Agreement Governing the Activities of States on the Moon and Other Celestial Bodies, the so-called “"The [executive] order reaffirms US support for the 1967 Outer Space Treaty while continuing to reject the 1979 Moon Agreement," Scott Pace, deputy assistant to the president and executive secretary of the National Space Council, said in a release (via So basically, Trump is rejecting the idea of outer space as a “global commons,” and letting future business partners know that Moon mining is a viable business adventure, and this order is intended to help with the legal framework to make that explicitly so.
“Engagement with international partners remains important, the official said,” “Artemis aims to land two astronauts on the moon in 2024 and to establish a sustainable human presence on and around Earth’s nearest neighbor by 2028.
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