The US has by virtue of the Artemis Accords, garnered the support for this. What I really see is like a UN run around. And I don't know, there will be 15 signatories at this point who are all allies of the US. Crucially, they do not have the agreement in this regard of China or Russia in part because the US Space Agency has barred itself from speaking at all or working at all with China.
Paris Marx is joined by Mary-Jane Rubenstein to discuss how ideas that underpinned colonization and Manifest Destiny are now setting the foundation for the billionaire space race and the plan to colonize the cosmos.
Mary-Jane Rubenstein is the author of Astrotopia: The Dangerous Religion of the Corporate Space Race. She’s also a Professor of Religion and Science in Society at Wesleyan University.
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