Hon. Peter J. Beshar
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And so the 2015 law occurred during President Obama's tenure.
Then President Trump took two important steps toward the end of his first term.
The first was signing an executive order saying,
that really sought to give greater assurance to commercial space companies that if they invested the capital needed to be able to extract resources, that they would then get the benefit of it.
And then the second vital step was the Artemis Accords.
Artemis was the twin sister of Apollo, and this is part of the Artemis program within NASA.
And so both NASA and the State Department started entering into bilateral agreements with the civil space authorities of a number of other countries that began to try to flesh out what those operational norms.
And as you mentioned, safety zones were one of those operational norms.
We spoke about how the Outer Space Treaty was negotiated in 1967.
Then there was the Rescue Agreement.
Then there was the Liability Convention and the Registration Convention.
Four agreements that really a large volume of countries all signed on to.
The last of the five was the Moon Agreement.
And the Moon Agreement took the approach that really resources on the Moon or on celestial bodies were the common good of all mankind.
And that was a controversial provision at the time, and it remains controversial today.
And so President Trump made clear that the U.S.
doesn't recognize the Moon Agreement.
The country did not sign on to it, nor did many of the other large spacefaring nations, China, Russia, Japan.
None of them signed because they thought that that did not reflect the approach that would likely work the best.
Yeah.
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