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Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos each have big plans on the moon and beyond, through their respective companies SpaceX and Blue Origin.
  • Billionaires, like Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos, and their space businesses are racing to the moon.
  • A few treaties have set norms for space exploration between countries, but there are no hard rules.
  • As entrepreneurs plan asteroid mines and Mars settlements, it's up to governments to set some ground rules.

The space business is in bloom and, so far, it's largely unregulated.