Re:US Set to Approve Private Moon Mission
by greglindahl on Sunday June 05, 2016 @11:47PM
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ITAR makes that illegal.
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An interesting notion - it would be an interesting case to see if exporting rocket components to "not a country" would violate ITAR. That hasn't stopped Iran from getting launching satellites into orbit though, and misses that e.g. ULA buys their rocket engines from Russia where ITAR obviously isn't a problem.
Re:US Set to Approve Private Moon Mission
by snowwrestler on Monday June 06, 2016 @09:45AM
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It seems like it would be very difficult to export to "not a country." Every dry rock in the world is claimed by some nation, and ships and platforms on the open ocean are flagged and/or operated by citizens of some existing nation. Many U.S. laws apply to U.S. citizens no matter where they are in the world.