Let's talk about the future for humans in space.
111 years ago the Wright brothers piloted the first powered airplane.
53 years ago we had the first human in outer space.
45 years ago was the first time a human being sat his foot on a celestial body other than the earth.
10 years ago the first manned private spaceflight completed it's flight beyond the Kármán line.
Imagine the day when it's possible for a regular person with presumably some form of license, can take a spacecraft and leave our atmosphere and fly into space. I'm not saying that the spacecraft have the ability to travel to another planet or go very far for that matter. I'm talking more a trip out in space and back kind of thing. I mean once a private spacecraft have the technology and ability to leave our atmoshpere there's no real boundaries for how far out in space you can go as long as you have the necessary assets to keep you alive in outer space and how long those will last.
Even by todays standards it's not really for everyone to have a pilot license so let's say you have a relative that have the money and will to earn a space pilot license or whatever you would call it. He then invites you to travel out in space for a couple of hours and then you head home. Yes it's probably far into the future but someday it will happen or something like this, you get what I mean.
1. So my questions are when we actually have the ability to do what I just described how do you think regulations and law will work in space?
2. If a US citizen commits a crime in space what countries laws will be in hand? The US? Will we maybe have a universal space police?
3. Will there be boundaries on how far out in space we actually can go and if so, what country will control that and how?
4. Should every human have the right to leave earth and live in space if the possibility were in hand?
5. If non of these topics are solvable in the future what will then stop everything outside the earths atmosphere to become lawless territory?