asteroid mining, lunar mining, outer space treaty, trump

Trump Signs an Executive Order Allowing Mining the Moon and Asteroids

In 2015, the Obama administration signed the U.S. Commercial Space Launch Competitiveness Act (CSLCA, or H.R. 2262) into law. This bill was intended to “facilitate a pro-growth environment for the developing commercial space industry” by making it legal for American companies and citizens to own and sell resources that they extract from asteroids and off-world ...

Troy Oakes

Asteroid mining.