A discussion about limits of acquisition on extraterrestrial property. What is the legal frame de facto, what are its philosophical sources and how justifiable are them?

Special guest: Virgiliu Pop member of International Institute of Space Law, researcher at Romanian Spatial Agency and author of Who Owns the Moon? Extraterrestrial Aspects of Land and Mineral Resources Ownership, and Unreal Estate. The Men Who Sold the Moon.

Lectures: Pop, Virgiliu. Who Owns the Moon?: Extraterrestrial Aspects of Land and Mineral Resources Ownership. Springer, 2008 (pp. 1-8, 51, 62-64, 82-83, 122-126). A preview of the book is available on  Google books.

Homesteading is likely to transform the lunar desert in the same manner as it transformed the 19th Century United States. Space is indeed a new frontier calling for individualism rather than collectivism, and its challenges need to be addressed with a legal regime favorable to property rights.” (Virgiliu Pop).