Space Junk: The Magazine Rewriting the Culture of Space

The 1967 Outer Space Treaty declares the moon 'the province of all mankind' and bans any nation from owning it — yet it created no court, no police and no referee anywhere off Earth to enforce the rule

On January 27, 1967, in ceremonies in Washington, London and Moscow, diplomats from the United States, the Soviet Union and the United Kingdom signed a document that declared outer space and every celestial body in it the “province of all mankind.” The Outer Space Treaty, drafted at the United Nations during the height of the Cold War, told its signatories that no country could plant a flag on the Moon and call it sovereign territory. It also to…

Space Junk: The magazine rewriting the culture of space

From UFO tourism to skating down volcanoes and walking on the moon, the magazine’s first issue wrestles space culture back from the hands of selfish billionaires