In the fifth installment of our #SWMEThemes on Space Resources and the Middle East, UAE space lawyer Humaid Al Shamsi explores the opportunities and legal and policy challenges for Middle Eastern states seeking to exploit space resources. Humanity relies heavily on natural resources and continued human...
According to MIT News, the module will "serve as a commercially owned space station, featuring a luxury hotel as the primary anchor tenant and NASA as a temporary co-anchor tenant. The artice from MIT news is reproduced below. You can also read the original here. An...
Steven Melendez from Fast Company writes about Luxembourg and the United Arab Emirates wanting "their piece of pie in the sky." We think both nations are well on their way to getting very generous pieces of that pie! We encourage you to read Mr. Melendez's...
Last winter, the House Subcommittee on Space held a hearing entitled “Regulating Space: Innovation, Liberty, and International Obligations.” Five witnesses spoke eloquently and reverently about space, while a number of other individuals and organizations submitted written testimony. The prevailing sentiment was that less is more. Over-regulation, the argument goes, is...