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Cleaning up deadly debris

Newt Gingrich’s proposal for a privately funded outpost on the moon revived questions about this nation’s 21st Century space agenda - but not the most pressing one. The most immediate issue about space is not technology, money, or aliens. It is governance. There is none. Under international rules, each country is responsible for its own space program. That has to change.

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