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The article explores origins of the outer space law in context of strategic considerations of powers that drafted it - the USA and USSR. It concludes that contrary to common perception, outer space law does not prohibit land grab, but rather has frozen this question for the time being while leaving backdoors to such action if needed. Both powers were aware of this and explicitly aimed at this type...