Report to the National Aeronautics and Space Administration on the Law of Outer Space

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American Bar Foundation, 1961 - 179 pages
 

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Page 8 - ... (i) continuation on a permanent basis of the outer space research now being carried on within the framework of the International Geophysical Year...
Page 28 - ... ocean floor, underlying the seas beyond the limits of present national jurisdiction, are not subject to national appropriation in any manner whatsoever...
Page 8 - ... (c) The future organizational arrangements to facilitate international cooperation in this field within the framework of the United Nations; (d) The nature of legal problems which may arise in the carrying out of programs to explore outer space; 2.
Page 7 - To review, as appropriate, the area of international co-operation, and to study practical and feasible means for giving effect to programmes in the peaceful uses of outer space which could appropriately be undertaken under United Nations auspices, including, inter alia.
Page 30 - States must bewa re of un safeguarded agreements that might not deter violators but at the same time could foreclose us from taking steps necessary to preserve our national existence. Space power is military power, too, and in the future it may become the decisive element of all military power. Until an appropriate inspection and control system can be created by international agreement, nations can work toward the fullest international cooperation in peaceful uses of space and space technology, as...
Page 36 - ... conditions likely to produce local disasters such as hurricanes may be technically feasible without substantial harm done elsewhere. If science enables us to alter climate in important ways, virtually all aspects of life will be dramatically affected and all states will be rightly concerned. It may be difficult to agree on standards where weather-control would have far-reaching effects on crop production, for example. Analogous problems have arisen from efforts to create rainfall through cloud-seeding,...
Page 8 - Year; (ii) Organization of the mutual exchange and dissemination of information on outer space research; (iii) Encouragement of national research programmes for the study of outer space, and the rendering of all possible assistance and help towards their realization; (b) To study the nature of legal problems which may arise from the exploration of outer space; 2.
Page 32 - ... space. The rule of law is neither dependent on, nor assured by, comprehensive codification, which may help or hinder depending on circumstances. At present we know very little about the actual and prospective uses of outer space in all their possible varieties of technical significance, political context, economic utility, and military advantage. In this situation an effort to agree on any comprehensive code might either come to naught, or yield a small set of pious maxims of extreme generality,...
Page 7 - The activities and resources of the United Nations, of its specialized agencies and of other international bodies relating to the peaceful uses of outer space...
Page 26 - ... during the course of their flight through outer space. The Committee, bearing in mind that its terms of reference refer exclusively to the peaceful uses of outer space, believes that, with this practice, there may have been initiated the recognition or establishment of a generally accepted rule to the effect that, in principle, outer space is, on conditions of equality, freely available for exploration and use by all in accordance with existing or future international law or agreements.

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