Show Cause Episode 20 – Space Tourism: Protecting the Next Frontier, with Professor Jennifer Brobst

Take a listen to the newest episode of Show Cause, featuring Professor Brobst. Find it on all the standard podcast platforms. Here is the Apple Podcast and Spotify information.

Today’s space industry is a more than $500 billion dollar enterprise, with commercial spaceflight, governmental contracts, telecommunications, mining, solar power, and overall space tourism all making up the many facets of tthe field. But as governments the world over, as well as billionaires like Elon Musk and Richard Branson are racing to carve up outer space and establish a presence there, what rights and obligations come along with that?

How do we protect this new frontier of pristine and uncharted territories? Who has a right to what and how will we even draw the lines that dictate such things?

In this episode of Show Cause, we are joined by Memphis Law Professor Jennifer Brobst, who has written extensively on the issues involved here, and recently published a book chapter entitled, “The legal strategies to preserve the natural and cultural heritage of space,” in the book “Space Tourism.”