Plenty of space for new country Asgardia
13 October 2016 - 10:01
A space nation, independent of countries on Earth, could be founded after a team of engineers, scientists and legal experts put forward proposals for an extraterrestrial state. The project, which is led by Russian scientist Igor Ashurbeyli, chairman of Unesco's Science of Space committee, aims to create an area in space which is beyond the control of individual nations.
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