Tell the Astronauts: The Law's Coming

摘要

Last november while the European Space Agency's Rosetta team celebrated landing its Philae probe on comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko, NASA's Asteroid Redirect Mission continued to plan how it would go about moving an asteroid into lunar orbit and send astronauts there before 2030. A month later, the Federal Aviation Administration told Bigelow Aerospace it could land an inflatable habitat on the moon at some future date and have exclusive rights to the land it occupies, in what seems like a bold expansion of the agency's jurisdiction.