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Planetary Protection for Commercial Exploration
NASA RFI No. NNH26ZDA010L · NSPIRES NOI/RFI No. N6-PSPRFI25-0068
NASA RFI response submitted through NSPIRES · August 10, 2026 · 5:43 p.m. EDT
The American Space Law Society
A new center for the law, philosophy, and politics of the stars.
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Despite hundreds of billions of dollars flowing into orbit every year, the laws that govern this investment are ancient and crumbling. The field that circumscribes those laws remains scattered and inaccessible.
The American Space Law Society aims to be a new center of gravity: propelling space law into the new space age, publishing open scholarship, and building the resources and infrastructure a growing field should already have.
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Comments on the Potential Use of the Outer Continental Shelf for Offshore Space Launch and Re-Entry Activities
Docket No. BOEM-2026-0232 · 91 Fed. Reg. 42246
Submitted August 7, 2026 · Posted August 10, 2026
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No Constitution for Space
A Realist Reading of the Outer Space Treaty and the Limits of Multilateral Space Governance
In preparation
Comments on the Waiver of Specified Statutory Requirements for Commercial Space Launch and Reentry Actions
Docket No. FAA-2026-8614 · Notice No. 26-11 · RIN 2120-AM51
In development
Hadrian's Dome
Planetary Defense
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