But that means the congress are implying that resources in space are free for anyone to take in the first place, bring brack and claim ownership of. Not something you normally can do on terra firma. Looting abroad is rarely ok, even if you pay taxes on the value of what you took when you get home.<p>The question of the ability for private enterprises and persons to claim rights to resources in space is interesting and needs to be regulated (if its not already so) in order to open up opportunities. But at I don&#x27;t see how the regulators of one nation could do this regulation.p by themselves, it needs to be an international treaty. Imho.