SpaceWaves: Avoiding celestial anarchy (with video)

Determining how government jurisdiction will extend past Earth’s gravitational pull

We made it to space, now who makes the rules?

Who governs space? And how do they get the jurisdiction to govern it?

Those are questions that haven’t quite been answered yet but are at the front of the conversation with commercial space flight on the near horizon.

Alexander Salter hears these questions and more from his students at Texas Tech University, where he teaches economics.

Salter says the existing rules for...