

Policy Area
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Space
Long-Term
January 23, 2024
While private exploration and commercial exploitation of space must always remain strictly limited, we look forward to a time when individuals can make their own way around the stars only limited by the galactic speed limit[1].
We are on the verge of an age of space exploration fueled by unprecedented capability of individuals to create and operate private space vehicles. As a result, it's time to catch up - and get ahead - of these changes to prevent repeating in space the same mistakes we've made here on Earth.
Hand-in-hand with exploration of space will inevitably come human expansion. In 1967, humanity had the foresight to create the Outer Space Treaty[1] which sought to protect space from unsustainable exploitation and dangerous weaponization. With all that's changed in more than 50 years, it's time to update international treaties governing human expansion into the infinite dark void.