Oct 8 1961
From The Space Library
Plans for a worldwide scientific study of the Sun, to begin in 1964 and continue for 18 months, were approved by scientists from 51 nations gathered in London for the triennial meeting of the International Council of Scientific Unions. Final plans to be drawn in Paris in April 1962 at a meeting of the International Committee on Geophysics, successor to the IGY.
In article in New York Times, Dr. Edward C. Welsh, Executive Secretary, National Aeronautics and Space Council, said: "In my view, we [the United States] do not have a division between peaceful and non-peaceful objectives for space. Rather, we have space missions to help keep the peace and space missions to enable us to live better in peace. " — In article in New York Times, Mr. George J. Feldman, consultant to the House Committee on Science and Astronautics, outlined several areas of international space law that urgently require solution, including sovereignty in space, liability for damage from spacecraft, conflicts of interest arising from space experiments, sovereignty claims on celestial bodies, and the international allocation of satellite radio frequencies. Communications satellites make latter point particularly critical, as well as posing an unprecedented problem in American contract and antitrust law.
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