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\"\"<\/a>Mackey Chandler’s short story Adverse Possession<\/strong><\/a> deals with a confrontation between an official ship from Earth reaching Mars and finding, much to the consternation of all, that this particular celestial body is already inhabited.\u00a0 The story is set in the near future, close enough that readers who are space lawyers may feel compelled to assess the situation in light of current law.\u00a0 SPOILER ALERT (this is where you pause and go read the charming and entertaining story–it’s a fun, quick read.\u00a0 I’ll wait):\u00a0 What threw me was that Mars was not inhabited by Heinlein’s fundamentally scary Martians, or by Edgar Rice Burrough’s Deja Thoris and Tars Tarkas, but by people from Earth.<\/p>\n

How the heck did people of Earth get to Mars with no one knowing about them?\u00a0 Under current law<\/strong><\/a> space flight participants have to sign reciprocal waivers of claims with the U.S. Government and, as of 2015, with the launch operator.\u00a0 The launch operator has to get an FAA license to get off Earth, and that process involves saying where you are going. \u00a0 (Sure, these laws may not survive the future, but laws seem hard to repeal, even those that are designed to sunset.\u00a0 How many times have the so-called “indemnification” provisions of the Commercial Space Launch Act been extended?\u00a0 A lot.)\u00a0 It seems that someone at the FAA would know that people had gone to Mars and who they were, and might mention it in passing during an inter-agency meeting or three.\u00a0 We know for sure the agency would have issued a press release.\u00a0 Had the secret travelers availed themselves of the regulatory provisions<\/a><\/strong> protecting proprietary information?\u00a0\u00a0 Even though I have said SPOILER ALERT I will not give away the answer.\u00a0 I will only say it’s not legal.\u00a0 Any comments to this post should be appropriately cited.<\/p>\n

About the Books Tab<\/strong>: I like science fiction. I like space law. The Book Tab contains science fiction books or short stories I come across that touch upon some element of space law. When I find an issue of space law in near future science fiction I will mention the book and the issue, and you can find links in the post and at the Book Tab. The Book Tab also contains my books, of course, even though two of them are purest space opera with not an ounce of space law to them. (That\u2019s because it\u2019s my blog.) The other two are bourgeois, legal science fiction full of space law and policy wonkery.\u00a0 They’re the ones without a space marine on the cover.<\/p>\n

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