WHAT ELSE?

We can recommend the following web sites for your consideration:

http://gos.sbc.edu/g/galloway2.html  (Eilene Galloway) This is a good article that defines problems with an historical summary dating to October 4, 1957, when Sputnik performed one orbit of the Earth, “like a spark that ignited and speeded the process of developing the exploration and peaceful uses of outer space on a continuing and larger scale.” It details the creation of NASA and UNCOPUOS.

www.gov/science/galloway_10-01.htm (Eilene Galloway) “NASA AT 40: WHAT KIND OF SPACE AGENCY DOES AMERICA NEED FOR THE 21^ST CENTURY?”

www.law.berkeley.edu/journals/btlj/articles/04_2/Danilenko/HTML/text.html  “Outer Space and the Multilateral Treaty-Making Process,” by Gennady M. Danilenko. The problems with competing national interests and fragmented space law form different sources and conflicting treaty provisions notwithstanding there is a need for ongoing space law development. The need for a new and comprehensive space law treaty is explored, if not recommended. (132 footnotes.)

http://home.talkcity.com/PlayingFields/davebrett/SpaceSettlement.html This is the Space Settlement Initiative of Mr. Alan Wasser Awasser@worldnet.att.net It asks Congress to grant land on the Moon/Mars to settlers who arrive there. (We would prefer a U.N. grant of a 99 year common law lease).

http://www.charmed.com/html/corporate/people/alexlightman/07_1998_Star%20Scores.htm Article by Alex Lightman as published in Space Governance Journal, 1998. This proposal has the United States rather than the U.N. head up as trustee an authority for the benefit of all to develop space.

www.spacefuture.com/archive/real_property_rights_in_outer_space.shtml Article by attorney Wayne White recommending a functional title to property under space objects and personnel of a nation at that location to accommodate their functions. An historical and logical argument supports such a treaty regime idea.

www.usis.sumaato.com The homepage for United Societies in Space, Inc.

http://www.spacefuture.com/archive/legal_and_regulatory_issues_for_passenger_space_travel.shtml “Legal and Regulatory Issues” by Patrick Collins and Koichi Yonemoto.