Hitting the Books: Why lawyers will be essential to tomorrow's orbital economy - Engadget

In their new book, The End of Astronauts, astrophysicist and science editor, Donald Goldsmith, and Martin Rees, the UK's Astronomer Royal, argue in favor of sending robotic scouts out into the void ahead of human explorers..

The skies overhead could soon be filled with constellations of commercial space stations occupying low earth orbit while human colonists settle the Moon with an eye on Mars, if today's robber barons … [+5345 chars]

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