[Mad Dawgg]

"You claimed that "Governments will never allow a private Corporation to [establish a lunar base]."

Yes I did and a corporate owned lunar Base is impossible with that Treaty in place the signatories agreed that any such endeavor will be controlled by the State.

Read again these words: "shall require authorization and continuing supervision by the appropriate State Party to the Treaty"

Any corporate Moon Base will be controlled by the Government period. So sez the Treaty. No doubt replete with a Federal LEO and a number of bureaucrats running things. The Government is not going to give away that control and no corporation is stupid enough to go and set up such when such a treaty exists.

So it will be a Nation State to setup the first Moon Base. Corps will no doubt go there and supply it and rent or purchase space on or near it but the Government will oversee it and regulate it.

Unless of course we withdraw from that treaty. Do you think Obama will?

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[Nowhere Man]

Any corporate Moon Base will be controlled by the Government period. So sez the Treaty. No doubt replete with a Federal LEO and a number of bureaucrats running things. The Government is not going to give away that control and no corporation is stupid enough to go and set up such when such a treaty exists.

So it will be a Nation State to setup the first Moon Base. Corps will no doubt go there and supply it and rent or purchase space on or near it but the Government will oversee it and regulate it.

Unless of course we withdraw from that treaty. Do you think Obama will?

That's why I don't like treaties, they put more shackles on us than they help us. My view is they are made to be broken anyways but like you said, this will not happen under Bammy.

I know this will not happen under Bammy as well, but I liked the idea of former talkshow host, Chuck Harder, where if we did gear up for the Moon and Mars landings, this will rejuvenate the lost spirit in America along with creating lots of jobs here at home.

Myself, if a private entity want to explore space and so on, let them and encourage policies that will foster that. However, like in the days of Columbus and the early 1600's, exploration was mainly a government funded activity, for better or worse, and I really don't object the Federal Government spearheading the way, at least we get returns from it instead of throwing it down a welfare black hole.