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9. I wonder if this will conflict with the 1967 Treaty on Outer Space.....
Thu Nov 26, 2015, 12:01 PM
Nov 2015

...which provides, inter alia,:

>> the exploration and use of outer space shall be carried out for the benefit and in the interests of all countries and shall be the province of all mankind;
>> outer space shall be free for exploration and use by all States;
>> outer space is not subject to national appropriation by claim of sovereignty, by means of use or occupation, or by any other means;
>> States shall not place nuclear weapons or other weapons of mass destruction in orbit or on celestial bodies or station them in outer space in any other manner;
>> the Moon and other celestial bodies shall be used exclusively for peaceful purposes;
>> astronauts shall be regarded as the envoys of mankind;



Could be.......

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