The June 2020 BE Report: Policy Recommendations to Accelerate the Establishment of Communities in Space
In its first study, Beyond Earth interviewed seven subject matter experts how U.S. and international policy should change to promote the commercial development of space and the eventual construction of communities in space. The result of those interviews and subsequent analysis revealed the following concerns:
- The United States Government must revamp the arms and export control regime, including ITAR and CFIUS, as these regulations in their current form are hurting high-tech U.S. commercial development, failing to achieve their goals, and impeding progress towards permanent human habitation of space.
- The international aerospace industry should establish voluntary norms of behavior surrounding commercial activities in space. These norms may be administered by trade associations and should be designed to influence any future regulatory, legal, or diplomatic framework covering private sector space activity including the construction of space communities.
- Continuing in the direction initiated by the NASA Artemis Accords, the United States Government should establish a whole-of-government sectoral trade and exploration agreement with like-minded allies focused on space commercial development as well as the eventual establishment of permanent human communities in space.
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