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Last week, a senior Russian foreign official told the United Nations that "quasi-civilian infrastructure may be a legitimate target for a retaliatory strike."
Mining the moon might sound like a concept that belongs in a science fiction novel, but it's likely to be a part of reality in the not-so-distant future. That's made it a hot topic of discussion among space lawyers yes, there are space lawyers on Earth.