#outer-space-treaty

The 1967 Outer Space Treaty declares the moon ‘the province of all mankind’ and bans any nation from owning it — yet it created no court, no police and no referee anywhere off Earth to enforce the rule

Signed in 1967 by the United States, Soviet Union and United Kingdom, the Outer Space Treaty bans any nation from owning the Moon — but created no court, police force or referee to enforce the rule. Six decades later, that gap is the central problem in space …