2022, LSC, Agenda Item 15: General Exchange of Views on Potential Legal Models for Activities in the Exploration, Exploitation and Utilization of Space Resources

Chairs and distinguished delegates, thank you for the opportunity to speak today. Open Lunar Foundation would like to express our congratulation at this first formal meeting of the working group.

We would also like to thank the working group for inviting contributions from private and civil society. We feel that these perspectives will be especially critical to developing sustainable and effective models for the exploRation, exploiTation and utilization of space resources. Unlike the ISS, lunar activities will not take place as a coordinated performance with a single shared goal, but will involve numerous unscripted activities by actors with diverse and varying interests. This is not to say that governments cannot introduce guidance or limitations, but that, in the absence of action, precedents are now being set by first movers.