United Nations Space
Exploration Council

It’s 2060, and nations as well as private companies have successfully launched missions to Mars and the Moon. What began as exploration is now a race for control, profit, and permanence and interstellar travel shifts from science fiction to political reality. The rules of the cosmos are no longer hypothetical, they’re overdue. As the final frontier becomes the next economic battleground, the United Nations Space Exploration Council convenes to confront a new era of power, ambition, and responsibility beyond Earth. From SpaceX’s Martian ambitions to mining ventures near the Moon’s south pole, space is becoming a site of corporate control and geopolitical competition. UNSEC tackles the urgent need to regulate private actors, enforce labor and human rights in off-world colonies, and ensure transparency in missions beyond Earth orbit.

Jurisdictional chaos also looms. Who governs the Moon and Mars? What laws apply to crimes in orbit? Looking ahead, the council also explores ethical boundaries of interstellar expansion: terraforming, resource extraction, and who gets a ticket to the stars. Space is no longer a distant dream. It is a contested, inhabited, and profitable domain, and UNSEC is where humanity decides what future we take with us to the stars.