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darkknight109 posted...

There are several international treaties - to which every country with a space program (excepting North Korea, if you even count them as having a space program) are signatories - stipulating that no territory outside of the earth's atmosphere can be claimed by any government or organization, including both space and all celestial bodies. Everything outside of the atmosphere is, much like Antarctica, considered to be the collective property of humanity, to be held in trust for future generations.

At some point this will almost certainly be overturned, although probably not just over a moonbase. If we ever actually reach a point where you residential living in space or on another planet is possible, you can bet countries are going to claim planets/moons.

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