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A Regulatory Scheme For The Dawn Of Space Tourism, Molly M. Mccue
A Regulatory Scheme For The Dawn Of Space Tourism, Molly M. Mccue
Vanderbilt Journal of Transnational Law
Today, companies like Blue Origin and Virgin Galactic have successfully launched paying customers into space, forging the future of the space tourism industry. While a growing space tourism industry promotes scientific advancement and opens an activity once reserved for trained astronauts to the public, the industry generates new issues and reveals the vulnerabilities of international space law. This Note explores the history of commercial spaceflight and the international agreements that comprise the current legal regime. It argues that space tourism presents a need for a new international agreement to address three vulnerabilities in the current international regime: environmental protections, protections …