who owns the rights to space? (Score 1)

As this is the first thing i've heard of a private company/individual trying to launch some kind of rocket or whatever you want to call it into space, it brings up an interesting question. Who owns the rights to space?

Almost all the "property?" on earth seems to be owned by someone. But as technology advances, and can see a whole bunch of problems in the future when someone other than a gov. agency wants to settle on the moon- etc. etc. etc.

I can't wait to see how the world governments handles this- but it will probably go through the stages that most gov. invloved legal issues do...
activist groups...protesting...bashing...laywers...money... interpretation of the constitution...and so on.