DEVELOPMENTS - Space tourism blasts off into legal mire

ABC Science Online, 30 August 2006

We need a legal definition of where space begins and ends to ensure future space tourists get what they pay for, says an Australian expert in space law. Associate Professor Steven Freeland from the University of Western Sydney will speak about emerging issues in space law at a seminar next week. Freeland says there are plenty of laws and treaties dealing with what we can and can't do in space. For example, it's illegal to claim territory in space or to use space for military or non-peaceful purposes. But he says there's no actual legal demarcation of where space begins and the sky ends. Freeland says the existing space laws are badly in need of an overhaul because developments like space tourism were never envisioned at the time they were drafted.

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