The world needs urgent regulations to prevent the 'Wild West' space resources race from spiralling out of control in to war, a British expert who worked on 's mission has warned.Several countries have recently set their sights on the Moon, which is a multi-quadrillion-pound hotbed of unearthed riches from rare Earth metals used in smartphones to helium that could perhaps provide an invaluable source of energy.But there has been unease among scientists about how the moon's resources are going to be policed after previous attempts to govern it, including the Moon Agreement of 1979, have failed to garner international consensus, with neither the US, or signing it.
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