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Gallery 'Space law in action'

Here you will find some pictures of ‘live action’ in the field of space law, policy and politics advice and tutoring - with some nice comments.

 

Explaining space law to UK Prime Minister Tony Blair Discussing the defence of the planet against asteroids with Apollo 9-astronaut Rusty Schweickart Participants at the Workshop organised by the Association of Space Explorers on Near-Earth Object deflection Frans von der Dunk “But Mister Chairman…' “And I would like to point out that…' “I am not sure I agree with that…'

Proudly receiving the IAA Social Science Award from the hands of Dr. Peter Jankowitsch, October 2006, in Valencia. Ready to fly - from Rio to the Brazilian Space Agency's headquarters in Sao José dos Campos, courtesy Brazilian Airforce. Swords into ploughshares, and outer space for peaceful purposes: this once-threatening SS-18 is now an almost-charming historical relict of the Cold War. No one stands as tall as a rocket - another relict of the Cold War-past now on display at the Makarov Machine Building Plant at Dnepropetrovsk, November 2006. Not a UN inspection of threatening weapons of mass-destruction, but UN workshop participants walking past the Zyklon-3 rocket. Dry shot: checking out the shower of the Space Shuttle. The real VIP-treat: trying to steer the Space Shuttle through the Johnson Space Center at Houston, October 2002.

Sometimes, the picture may be fuzzy but the message may be clear: making speakers stick to their allotted time requires special measures...