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They already belong to USA with a cold war protectionist law: ITAR. That's why Russia, China, Europe, Copenhagen suborbitals, etc, are all going into space without USA's help.

To put it in perspective, it's illegal for any American to explain to a foreigner how to build the necessary means to get into space.

That said, it shouldn't be an us vs them game with progressing the knowledge.



Wait, if that's illegal, how on earth can the US reasonably co-operate on such things as the ISS?


It's illegal for citizens, probably not for official cooperations between branches of different governments.




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