Re:Crew Dragon Docks with ISS
by pfdietz on Sunday May 31, 2020 @07:57PM
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I wonder if the 3rd Amendment would prevent nationalization of US space stations.
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Re:Crew Dragon Docks with ISS
by yellowapple on Sunday May 31, 2020 @08:44PM
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I guess it depends on who owns it, and whether or not it counts as a private home (and to be clear, nationalization in and of itself wouldn't run afoul of it, since the amendment is limited in scope to quartering of troops in a private residence without the actual residents' consent). It'd get even fuzzier if different people "own" different modules (so the military could perhaps occupy some shared corridors, but if people have attached their own modules as homes, then those would be off-limits for quartering).
Realistically, maritime law might be a better reference, given that space stations and other spaceships are informally (if not formally) referred to as "ships".