...a branch of the general international law. It is alarming if the freedom of exploration and use of outer space for peaceful purposes for the benefit and in the interests of all countries, without discrimination of any kind, on a basis of equality and...
... of a permanently inhabited civil Space Station for peaceful purposes, in accordance with international law’ (Article 1)....and other celestial bodies shall be used exclusively for peaceful purposes. According to the United States the OST doesn’t...
... are hard to disagree with. Based firmly on the Outer Space Treaty, these principles are: peaceful purposes, transparency, interoperability, emergency assistance, registration of space objects, release of scientific data, preserving space heritage...
... the priorities of the States in regulating the newly established field and maintaining outer space for exclusively peaceful purposes, might have limited the scope of the treaties to public, non-commercial activities. Nevertheless, the ‘prophetic...
...stone of the legal regime governing the use of space for peaceful purposes. It was followed by four more treaties: the ‘Rescue Agreement... of its work lies the fundamental need for securing the peaceful use of space for the benefit of all mankind. This...
... that created the United States’ National Aeronautical and Space Administration - that “activities in space should be devoted to peaceful purposes for the benefit of all mankind.” The Apollo astronauts left equipment, footprints and numerous symbolic...