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The aim of this chapter is to provide some insight into the legal aspects of space activities from the perspective of a non-lawyer. Engineers and scientists increasingly express an interest in the legal aspects of space activities. Law is sometimes seen as barring technological progress by imposition of prescriptive rules and regulations, but the understanding that law can also protect and promote the interests of space science and technology is gaining ground.
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All texts, official titles and sources can be consulted on the useful website of the Office for Outer Space Affairs in Vienna, the UN office supporting the work of COPUOS. See http://www.oosa.unvienna.org, especially under ‘Space law’.
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Masson-Zwaan, T., Crowther, R. (2014). Legal and Regulatory Issues. In: Macdonald, M., Badescu, V. (eds) The International Handbook of Space Technology. Springer Praxis Books(). Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-41101-4_23
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