Hon. Peter J. Beshar
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I'm delighted to join you, John.
And the space world is having quite a moment right now.
I was in a taxi in New York City last month, and the driver, unprompted, turns to me and says, how about that SpaceX IPO?
I know, I know.
And then 27 million Americans watched the re-entry and splashdown of the Artemis II capsule.
And the NASA administrator, Jared Isaacman, said, people are looking up again.
Despite it being so vast, there are actually quite few laws that govern the space domain.
The most important was negotiated in the height of the Cold War and in the midst of the first space race, principally by the United States, Soviet Union and the UK.
And it's called the Outer Space Treaty of 1967.
And now more than 100 countries have signed on to that treaty, John.
including China.
And it really is considered the Magna Carta of the space world.
I think it's really that that's the most important law, even though it's 60 years old, that there are other treaties that have occurred.
The Liability Convention is important, some acts and statutes and the like.
But the outer space law is really the Magna Carta.
Yeah, and so just to take a step back on it about the way that the Outer Space Treaty still impacts so many activities going on currently –
You know, a key provision, as you've said, is the non-appropriation provision.
And what that basically says is that no country can assert ownership over the moon or any other celestial body on the basis of a claim of sovereignty by occupying it or by any other means.
So neither the United States nor China nor any other country can claim the moon as theirs.
And first, just to think about, well, what are the resources that are of interest on the moon?
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