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Humanity's manifest destiny is the colonization of outer space, but it will not happen without the ability of people to lay claim to what they have expended their money, ingenuity and, perhaps, lives to reach. There is ample precedent for this approach as the method upon which to encourage and enlist entrepreneurs to take the risk and make the investments in technology and infrastructure necessary to tame the final frontier. Witness the gold and land rushes of the American West, and the expansion of the railroads from the Atlantic to the Pacific. Humanity s manifest destiny is the colonization of outer space, but it will not happen without the ability of people to lay claim to what they have expended their money, ingenuity and, perhaps, lives to reach. The current regime of space treaties to which the major spacefaring powers are parties does not exclude private-property rights in outer space.