Asteroids, Mining, and Policy (Secure World Foundation), May 2016

The Secure World Foundation and the Alliance for Space Development held a seminar on “Asteroids, Mining, and Policy:  Practical Consideration of Space Resource Rights” on May 5, 2016 in Washington, DC.   Among the panelists was Christopher Ingraham, legislative aide to Rep. Jim Bridenstine, who discussed legislation the congressman is drafting to implement the asteroid mining provisions in the Commercial Space Launch Competitiveness Act (CSLCA).  Another panelist, the State Department’s Ken Hodgkins, reported on the reaction of the international community to the passage of CSLCA at the recent meeting of the Legal Subcommittee of the U.N. Committee on Peaceful Uses of Outer Space.  Peter Marquez from Planetary Resources Inc., “the asteroid mining company,” and space lawyer Jim Dunstan were two other members of the panel.

SpacePolicyOnline.com published a summary of the meeting on May 7, 2016.