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STAKING A CLAIM

Introduction
Lunar Prospector, engineered and flown by the United States, is the first craft to unquestionably detect ice on the lunar surface, but does that mean the ice belongs us? According to the terms of the United Nations Treaty on Outer Space, signed by the United States and other nations in 1966, no country can own the moon, which leaves the questions: How will rules governing the right to lunar ice be determined, and who will determine them?

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