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Space Law

A topic within Spaceflight & Astronautics, itself one of 13 topics in that field and part of Astronomy & Space Science.

Reading on Space Law

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Report1967

Treaty on Principles Governing the Activities of States in the Exploration and Use of Outer Space, including the Moon and Other Celestial Bodies

United Nations General Assembly

Establishes that no state may claim sovereignty over the Moon or any celestial body and that outer space is to be used for peaceful purposes, the founding legal instrument every later space treaty rests on or reacts against.

link checked 17 Sept 2026

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Report1979

Agreement Governing the Activities of States on the Moon and Other Celestial Bodies

United Nations General Assembly

Attempts to extend the Outer Space Treaty's principles into a formal common-heritage-of-mankind regime for the Moon's resources, a claim so contested that only a handful of non-spacefaring states ever ratified it.

link checked 17 Sept 2026

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Reading on Space Law

Treaty on Principles Governing the Activities of States in the Exploration and Use of Outer Space, including the Moon and Other Celestial Bodies

Agreement Governing the Activities of States on the Moon and Other Celestial Bodies

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