{"id":75301,"date":"2018-01-15T23:42:28","date_gmt":"2018-01-16T07:42:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/01\/simply-fix-the-moon-treaty"},"modified":"2018-01-16T17:00:31","modified_gmt":"2018-01-17T01:00:31","slug":"simply-fix-the-moon-treaty","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/01\/simply-fix-the-moon-treaty","title":{"rendered":"Simply fix the Moon Treaty"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/simply-fix-the-moon-treaty2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>My article with Jeff Sommers (see <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thespacereview.com\/article\/3393\/1\">\u201cThe emerging field of space economics: theoretical and practical considerations\u201d<\/a>, The Space Review, December 18, 2017) raised considerable criticism regarding the Moon Treaty, particularly, the inclusion of the Common Heritage of Mankind (CHM) doctrine. Leigh Ratiner, L5 attorney during the 1980 Senate ratification hearings, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nss.org\/settlement\/L5news\/1980-hearings.htm\">had identified CHM as the reason for rejecting ratification<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thespacereview.com\/article\/3408\/1\">http:\/\/www.thespacereview.com\/article\/3408\/1<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My article with Jeff Sommers (see \u201cThe emerging field of space economics: theoretical and practical considerations\u201d, The Space Review, December 18, 2017) raised considerable criticism regarding the Moon Treaty, particularly, the inclusion of the Common Heritage of Mankind (CHM) doctrine. Leigh Ratiner, L5 attorney during the 1980 Senate ratification hearings, had identified CHM as the [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":354,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39,5,8,22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-75301","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economics","category-geopolitics","category-space","category-treaties"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75301","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/354"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=75301"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75301\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":75323,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75301\/revisions\/75323"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=75301"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=75301"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=75301"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}