Changing the Worlds: The For-Profit Plan to Mine Asteroids and Terraform Two Planets in One Human Lifetime

We can buy cars, food, homes, and businesses—so why can’t we buy pieces of outer space? Author John Amabile, a space enthusiast, dreams of a world where we could do just that. In this study, he lays out a clear approach for moving mankind into space profitably and with minimal interference from the government in a single human lifetime.

It starts by disputing the idea that outer space is collective property. Amabile maintains that, as history shows, without the ability to own and profit fr...