[transhumanist]

We won't withdraw from the 1967 Treaty. We should. There will be no private development of outer space.

Once the government figures out it will make more in taxes from encouraging private space development than it will gain from maintaining a monopoly on space development, it'll happen faster than you can imagine.

And that's just started. Congress passed the Space Tourism act. I give it three years before we see a huge government commitment to privitization of space.

[RightWhale]

They will have to grant private property rights. From the Treaty and the treatment of the West and Alaska that seems unlikely. Without private property rights there will be no investment.

The thing with Tourism is that there will be no development of space resources. You will continue to own what you already owned before launch, no more. That is covered in the Treaty.