President Trump has signed an executive order establishing U.S. policy on the use of off-Earth resources, including mining of the moon’s water ice and other natural resources, as well as tapping asteroids passing by.
On Monday, the president signed the executive order, titled Encouraging International Support for the Recovery and Use of Space Resources. The order cites the 1967 Outer Space Treaty as allowing the U.S. to tap resources on the moon, Mars and elsewhere.
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