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As in the great age of discoveries and exploration, when man, confident of his intuition and skill, dared to confront the dangers of the seas, man has once again started to search for new frontiers of knowledge and progress. He had penetrated deeply into the solar system and the universe; he has already asserted his place in outer space and proved his superiority over the most sophisticated machines and instruments.1
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Quoted by Professor Goedhuis in “Current Problems in Space Law: A Symposium B.I.I.C.L. 1966, at pg. 28.
Dr. Dienzeide, speaking at the UNESCO Meeting of Experts on the use of Space Communications by the Mass Media, 6—so December 1965.
The Outer Space Treaty was first considered and elaborated at the fifth session of the Legal Sub-Committee of u.N. coruos in 1966 and finalized at the twenty-first session of the u.N. General Assembly.
For a report on the evolution of the Space Treaty within the Legal Sub-Committee see Paul G. Dembling and Daniel M. Arons, “United Nations Celestial Bodies Convention”, 32 J. Air L. and Corn. pp. 535–550, 329–372 (1966), 33 J. Air L. and Corn. pp. 419–456 (1967); see further below pp. II-64 on Space Law before the Space Treaty; For the various phases of the Treaty negotiations, there is an excellent summary in Professor Cheng’s article entitled, “Le Traité de 1967 sur l’espace”, Journal du Droit international, 99e année (1968) No. 3 at PP. 544–558.
United Nations Office of Public Information Press Release SG/SM/825, 10 October 1967. u uN General Assembly unanimously adopted Res. 1962 (xv111) on 13 Dec. 1963.
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Ogunbanwo, O.O. (1975). Introduction, Purpose and Scope. In: International Law and Outer Space Activities. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-9212-5_1
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