https://spacewatch.global/tag/learn-space-foundation/ AN INDEPENDENT PERSPECTIVE ON SPACE Fri, 12 Sep 2025 07:16:23 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.1.4 https://spacewatch.global/wp-content/uploads/2024/09/SpaceWatchGlobal-Sign-90x90.png https://spacewatch.global/tag/learn-space-foundation/ 32 32 https://spacewatch.global/2020/08/spacewatchgl-opinion-african-states-and-international-space-treaties/ Wed, 12 Aug 2020 12:00:00 +0000 https://spacewatch.global/?p=24954&preview=true&preview_id=24954 by Nelly-Helen Neji Ebruka As often said, when men reached for the stars, lawyers reached for their books. After Yuri Gagarin’s historic space flight in 1957, the international community through the United Nations deemed it pertinent to agree on certain principles and rules to regulate outer space affairs. Space exploration undoubtedly brought new ideas in the development of various fields like science, medicine, media and communications, etc. and of course legal lacuna had to be filled.]]>