Who Owns The Moon?
What Color Are The Planets Really? http://bit.ly/1OmkH5h Subscribe! http://bitly.com/1iLOHml Before the first man landed on the moon, several nations created the basis for international space...
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In a December 2015 interview with GQ, billionaire inventor Elon Musk predicted that we will be able to send humans to Mars roughly within a decade. The idea of human space travel has been a popular topic since the first satellite was launched in 1957, and today movies like The Martian keep the public’s interest engaged. But with Musk's talk of going to Mars for fun or for profit, questions arise about who will own any planets we someday inhabit. So, to start off, let’s look at where we’ve already been. Who owns the moon? Well, historically speaking, new land was claimed by the first powerful country to set foot on it (although any indigenous population would likely disagree). In this sense, Neil Armstrong was the first to step onto its surface, an...
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In a December 2015 interview with GQ, billionaire inventor Elon Musk predicted that we will be able to send humans to Mars roughly within a decade. The idea of human space travel has been a popular topic since the first satellite was launched in 1957, and today movies like The Martian keep the public’s interest engaged. But with Musk's talk of going to Mars for fun or for profit, questions arise about who will own any planets we someday inhabit. So, to start off, let’s look at where we’ve already been. Who owns the moon? Well, historically speaking, new land was claimed by the first powerful country to set foot on it (although any indigenous population would likely disagree). In this sense, Neil Armstrong was the first to step onto its surface, an...
