# What if an astronaut commits a crime in space? **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [October 31, 2006, 5:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-if-an-astronaut-commits-a-crime-in-space/378594 "2006-10-31T17:00:37Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![diggleblop](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ac91a4/32.png) [@diggleblop](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/diggleblop)\ **Post date:** [October 31, 2006, 5:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-if-an-astronaut-commits-a-crime-in-space/378594/1 "2006-10-31T17:00:37Z")
What if an astronaut kills another astronaut in space? Being that there are no laws in space, is he subject to the laws of the spacecraft he’s on? What if he kills another astronaut on the moon? I know it’s a weird question, but sometimes reality is stranger than fiction and anything is possible I guess. ---
**Author:** ![Exapno\_Mapcase](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/exapno_mapcase/32/1051_2.png) [@Exapno\_Mapcase](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Exapno_Mapcase)\ **Post date:** [October 31, 2006, 5:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-if-an-astronaut-commits-a-crime-in-space/378594/2 "2006-10-31T17:44:12Z")
We do have a search function here. It would be polite if your started there and acknowledged the earlier threads. [Murder in outer space](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=162541) ---
**Author:** ![diggleblop](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ac91a4/32.png) [@diggleblop](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/diggleblop)\ **Post date:** [October 31, 2006, 6:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-if-an-astronaut-commits-a-crime-in-space/378594/3 "2006-10-31T18:06:21Z")
Sorry if I don’t want to fan through hundreds of threads. ---
**Author:** ![Gfactor](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/9de053/32.png) [@Gfactor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gfactor)\ **Post date:** [October 31, 2006, 6:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-if-an-astronaut-commits-a-crime-in-space/378594/4 "2006-10-31T18:19:09Z")
[QUOTE=diggleblop] Sorry if I don’t want to fan through hundreds of threads. [/QUOTE] There’s this one, too: [If Neil Armstrong would have murdered Buzz Aldrin](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=351651) ---
**Author:** ![awldune](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/c77e96/32.png) [@awldune](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/awldune)\ **Post date:** [October 31, 2006, 6:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-if-an-astronaut-commits-a-crime-in-space/378594/5 "2006-10-31T18:19:20Z")
[QUOTE=diggleblop] Sorry if I don’t want to fan through hundreds of threads. [/QUOTE] When you search, are constraining the search to General Questions? Searching for “crime in space” yields almost 300 results, but searching GQ only narrows it to 17 results. ---
**Author:** ![Jayrot](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/3ec8ea/32.png) [@Jayrot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jayrot)\ **Post date:** [October 31, 2006, 6:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-if-an-astronaut-commits-a-crime-in-space/378594/6 "2006-10-31T18:27:36Z")
[QUOTE=diggleblop] Sorry if I don’t want to fan through hundreds of threads. [/QUOTE] Then sorry if we don’t want to fan through hundreds of your threads. You can have a look around at the [European Center for Space Law](http://www.esa.int/SPECIALS/ECSL/SEMS492VQUD_1.html). ---
**Author:** ![AtomicDog](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ac91a4/32.png) [@AtomicDog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AtomicDog)\ **Post date:** [October 31, 2006, 8:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-if-an-astronaut-commits-a-crime-in-space/378594/7 "2006-10-31T20:42:06Z")
In space, no one can hear you sue.