Abstract In 2007, the United Nations Committee on the Peaceful Uses of Outer Space (COPUOS) held its fiftieth session and commemorated a remarkable convergence of space anniversaries as recognised by the United Nations General Assembly in its Resolution 62/217 of 21 December 2007. These anniversaries included the fiftieth anniversary of the advent of the space age with the launch into outer space of the first artificial Earth satellite, Sputnik 1, on 4 October 1957; the fortieth anniversary of the Outer Space Treaty511 which entered into force on 10 October 1967; the fiftieth session of COPUOS; and the fiftieth anniversary of the International Geophysical Year, which was commemorated by proclaiming the year 2007 as the International Heliophysical Year.512
The United Nations and Outer Space: Celebrating 50 Years of Space Achievements
2009-01-01
16 pages
Article/Chapter (Book)
Electronic Resource
English
United Nations Office for Outer Space Affairs
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