The 1950s
First International Astronautical Congress (30 September – 2 October)Useful linksIAF website on the congress
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1970
Japan (11 February) and China (24 April) launch their first satellites
Articles
A. DUPAS
“Asia in Space: The awakening of China and Japan
Space Policy, Volume 4, Issue 1, February 1988, pp. 31-40.
Useful links
1971
The establishment of the United Nation Programme on Space Applications, the launch of the first USSR Salyut Station (19 April-11 October), the launch of United Kingdom’s first satellite (28 October) and the establishment of INTERSPUTNIK (15 November)
Documents
Useful links
1972
The Liability Convention
Documents
1973
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1975
The Apollo-Soyuz Test Project (15-24 July), the merger of ESRO and ELDO into ESA and the Registration Convention.
Documents
Convention on Registration of Objects Launched into Outer Space
Journal of Space Law, Volume 1, 1973.
National Security Decision Memorandum 70 (10 July 1970)
Books
“Twenty Years of the ESA Convention”
Proceedings of an International Symposium, Munich, Germany, 4-6 September 1995
ESA SP-387, 1995.
E. C. EZELL, L. N. EZELL
NASA SP-4209, Washington DC, 1978.
W. FROEHLICH
“Apollo Soyuz”
NASA EP-109, Washington DC, 1976.
J. KRIGE, A. RUSSO
ESA Publication Division, ESTEC, Noordwijk, The Netherlands, 2000.
A. L. LEBEDEV, A. P. ROMANOV
“Rendezvous in Space: Soyuz Apollo”
Progress Publishers, Moscow, 1979.
C. M. LEE (eds.)
“Apollo Soyuz Mission Report”
Univelt, San Diego, CA, 1976.
C. REDMOND
“The Flight of Apollo Soyuz”
Useful links
1976
The first landing of a spaceship on Mars (20 July) and the establishment of INMARSAT (3 September)
Documents
Journal of Space Law, Volume 4, n. 2, Fall 1976, pp. 135-164.
Articles
S. E. DOYLE
“INMARSAT: The International Maritime Satellite
Organization-Origins and Structure”
Journal of Space Law, Volume 5, Numbers 1-2, Spring and Fall 1977, pp. 45-64.
Useful links
1977
Establishment of EUTELSAT and the launch of the Voyager twin space probes to explore the solar system (5 September)
Documents
Convention Establishing the European Telecommunications Satellite Organization EUTELSAT
Books
A. J. BUTRICA
In P. E. MACK (ed.) “From Engineering Science to Big Science”, cap. 10
NASA Hisory website
S. COURTEIX
“EUTELSAT: Europe’s Satellite Telecommunications”
5 Michigan Yearbook of International Legal Studies 85, 1984.
Useful Links
1978
The crash of USSR’s Cosmos 954 satellite on Canada (24 January) and the launch of the first satellite of the GPS system (22 February)
Documents
Books
NASA History Series, NASA History Office, Washington, 1986.
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1979
The Moon Agreement, the establishment of the Conference on Disarmamentand the launch of the first European rocket (Ariane 1, 24 December)
Documents
Agreement Governing the Activities of States on the Moon and Other Celestial Bodies
Journal of Space Law, Volume 1, 1973.
Books
W. HUON
"Ariane, une épopée européenne"
ETAI, 2007.
Useful links
BBC on this day: 24 December 1979
Conference on Disarmament – United Nations Office at Geneva (CD-UNOG)
IISL-ECSL Symposium 2009 on the 30th anniversary of the Moon Agreement- Programme
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The 1960s
1960Foundation of the International Academy of Astronautics (IAA)Useful linksIAA website
The 1970s
Japan (11 February) and China (24 April) launch their first satellitesArticlesA. DUPAS“Asia in Space: The awakening of China and JapanSpace Policy, Volume 4, Issue 1, February 1988, pp. 31-40.Useful linksBeijingReview ...
The 1980s
Creation of Arianespace, the world’s first commercial transportation company (26 March), and the launch of India’s first satellite (18 July)ArticlesK. ISERLAND“Ten years of Arianespace”Space Policy, Volume 6, Issue 4, November ...
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