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The law was passed on May 21, 2015 to allow US industries to "engage in the commercial exploration and exploitation of space resources", but it asserts that "the United States does not [by this Act] assert sovereignty, or sovereign or exclusive rights or jurisdiction over, or the ownership of, any celestial body."
There is a growing emphasis on space law in academia. Since 1951, the McGill Faculty of Law in Montreal, Canada has hosted the Institute of Air and Space Law, and offers an LL.M. in Air and Space law. [104] The University of Mississippi School of Law publishes the world's only law journal devoted to space law, the Journal of Space Law.
Communications Satellite Act of 1962; Commercial Space Launch Act of 1984; Land Remote-Sensing Commercialization Act of 1984; Launch Services Purchase Act of 1990; Commercial Space Act of 1998; Commercial Space Launch Amendments Act of 2004; Commercial Space Launch Competitiveness Act of 2015; SPACE Act of 2015
However, a federal law went into effect earlier this year called the "Space Force Personnel Management Act." It doesn't create a Space Force National Guard, per se, but it does call for the ...
Elon Musk’s SpaceX is responsible for developing the lunar lander — called Starship — that will ferry astronauts to the surface of the moon for the first time since the Apollo program.
The five treaties and agreements of international space law cover "non-appropriation of outer space by any one country, arms control, the freedom of exploration, liability for damage caused by space objects, the safety and rescue of spacecraft and astronauts, the prevention of harmful interference with space activities and the environment, the ...
The National Aeronautics and Space Act of 1958 (Pub. L. 85–568) is the United States federal statute that created the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA). The Act, which followed close on the heels of the Soviet Union 's launch of Sputnik , was drafted by the United States House Select Committee on Astronautics and Space ...
Environmental law is the collection of laws, regulations, agreements and common law that governs how humans interact with their environment. [2] This includes environmental regulations; laws governing management of natural resources , such as forests , minerals , or fisheries; and related topics such as environmental impact assessments .