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President Trump has decided to turn his attention to mining the moon during this difficult time for the nation.
According to documents released by the White House, Donald Trump paused his efforts around the growing coronavirus crisis to sign an executive order.
This order will leave the US free to mine the moon for resources.
The document says the order rejects the 1979 global agreement known as the Moon Treaty .
This treaty says any activity in space should conform with international law.
The order states: "Americans should have the right to engage in commercial exploration, recovery, and use of resources in outer space.
"Outer space is a legally and physically unique domain of human activity, and the United States does not view it as a global commons."
Trump now wants to 'mine the moon for resources' because causing havoc on Earth obviously isn't enough for him
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In news that no one expected to read in the middle of a pandemic, Donald Trump has signed an executive order to mine the moon for resources.
Yes, that is something that the president of the United States actually did while hundreds of thousands of his citizens are being impacted by a deadly virus. Priorities!
In a document released by the White House, Trump's order controversially rejects the 1979 global Moon Treaty agreement, which stated that any activity in space should abide by international law.
According to Trump's order, it states that:
Americans should have the right to engage in commercial exploration, recovery, and use of resources in outer space.
Outer space is a legally and physically unique domain of human activity, and the United States does not view it as a global commons.
In response, the Russian space agency has accused Trump of trying to 'privatise space.' In a statement, Roscosmos said:
Attempts to expropriate outer space and aggressive plans to actually seize territories of other planets hardly set the countries (on course for) fruitful cooperation.
For some, this may bring back memories of the Cold War 'space race' between the US and the Soviet Union but for many, they have just been left baffled that Trump would choose to concentrate on this during one of the most testing periods the world has experienced for a generation.
This isn't a million miles away from the premise of the sci-fi film Moon, where mankind attempts to harvest minerals from our lunar friend. Even that movies director, Duncan Jones, was a bit taken aback when he heard this news.
Let's not forget that in June 2018, Donald Trump tweeted that the moon was 'a part of Mars' so we cannot wait to see how this is going to play out.
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The "Moon Treaty" Opened for signature at New York on 18 December 1979 ... International co-operation in pursuance of this Agreement should be as wide as ... prejudice to the international regime referred to in paragraph 5 of this article.
Agreement Governing the Activities of States on the Moon and ...
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The Moon Agreement of 1979: What Relevance to Space ...
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