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The National Space Transportation Policy: Issues For Congress, U.S. Congress, Office Of Technology Assessment
The National Space Transportation Policy: Issues For Congress, U.S. Congress, Office Of Technology Assessment
Space Law Documents
In responding to the political and military challenges of the Cold War, and the urge to explore and exploit outer space, the United States developed a capable fleet of space transportation systems for carrying cargo and people into space, and for ensuring a credible strategic nuclear deterrent. These systems are owned and managed by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, the Department of Defense, and private industry. In recent years, increasing federal budget constraints, commercial competition from foreign launch firms, and a desire to continue an ambitious space program have created pressures within the United States to reduce the costs …
Two New National Space Laws: Russia And South Africa, Frans G. Von Der Dunk
Two New National Space Laws: Russia And South Africa, Frans G. Von Der Dunk
Space, Cyber, and Telecommunications Law Program: Faculty Publications
Increasing private participation in space activities is one of the most farreaching developments relevant for international space law today. The most comprehensive consequence of such private participation in a legal sense is in fact the necessity to establish a national space legislation of some kind, in view of the international obligations arising under responsibility and liability for the state relative to the consequences of these private activities. The rather recent addition in 1993 of two states, the Russian Federation and the Republic of South Africa, to the previously existing number of three states (the United States, Sweden and the United …