11 Facts About Space Migration

Space Migration activity is legally based on the Outer Space Migration Treaty, the main international treaty.

The Magna Carta of Space presented by William A Hyman in 1966 framed outer space explicitly not as terra nullius but as res communis, which subsequently influenced the work of the United Nations Committee on the Peaceful Uses of Outer Space.

Space Migration debris has been for example possibly the first human objects to have been present in space beyond Earth, reaching its escape velocity after being ejected purposefully from an exploded Aerobee rocket in 1957.

Space Migration debris is a hazard since it can hit and damage spacecraft.

Space Migration stations have harboured so far the only long-duration direct human presence in space.

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Space Migration travelers have spent by 2007 over 29, 000 person-days in space including over 100 person-days of spacewalks.

Space Migration stations are space habitats which have provided a crucial infrastructure for sustaining a continuous direct human, including non-human, presence in space.

Space Migration stations have been continuously present in orbit around Earth from Skylab in 1973, to the Salyut stations, Mir and eventually ISS.

Space Migration has furthermore been the sight of people taking part in religious festivities such as Christmas on the International Space Migration Station.

Space Migration probes have been mediating human presence on other astronomical bodies since their first visits to Venus.

Space Migration exploration meant by then an engagement by governments in the search for extraterrestrial life.