Geography 2090A/B Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Outer Space Treaty, United Nations General Assembly, Space Law

• School: Western University
• Department: Geography
• Course: Geography 2090A/B
• Professor: P.J.Stooke

Document Summary

Only space business, space law in lecture 8a will be on the test. Blow up the huge hydrogen in the surface of the moon to prove that the super nations already go to the moon. The united nations core actor for space politics. Why might this committee come together in 1958. In 1958 un ad hoc committee for discussion of space politics. In 1959 ad hoc committee becomes united nations committee on the. Space activities of un now carried out under unoosa which includes. Copuos and other space mandates from the un general assembly. First introduced in 1966, the outer space treaty entered into force in late. The treaty has 17 articles dealing with a variety of issues, and is reflective of the cold war era in which it was created. However, the treaty is also highly idealistic and crafts a cooperative and peaceful image of space use that has been challenged ever since.