rules for space: Murky frontier of rules for the space industry
Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos and Richard Branson are racing to establish a presence in space. But what rights and obligations come with that?It's not clear what the rules are, even as the $460 billion space industry is growing quickly. Virgin Galactic, the space tourism company founded by Branson, announced Thursday that it would launch its first commercial spaceflight this month, joining Bezos' Blue Origin and Musk's SpaceX in sending ticketed passengers to space. But travel is just one emerging corner of the industry, which is…