Who Owns The Moon? The Case For Lunar Property Rights

With the space race in full flower, though, the real worry was national sovereignty. But what about private property rightspersonal and corporate? Some scholars argue that property rights can exist only under a nation’s dominion, but most believe that property rights and sovereignty can be distinct. In something of an admission that this is the case, nations that thought the Outer Space Treaty didn’t go far enough proposed a new agreement, the Moon Treaty, in 1979.

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