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Which company will achieve her goals before, SpaceX or Blue Origin?
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Re: Which company will achieve her goals before, SpaceX or Blue Origin?
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The whole point of the Artemis Accords (written and signed by the United States) is that landing on an extraterrestrial body and setting up a base doesn't give you control over that whole body. Just the immediate environs around your base, and any resources you've mined from the surface (or atmosphere, on Mars).
And the "claiming land" part is written to carefully sidestep the UN outer space treaty, basically saying "you don't 'own' the land, you just set up a safety cordon." It's clearly a legal fig leaf, at some point the UN treaty will be replaced, but the Artemis Accords are an attempt to guide what comes next, so they're a statement of intent from the US saying "even if we build a Mars base, we're not claiming the whole planet."
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