WORLD SPACE WEEK

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The start date of World Space Week recognizes the launch of the first Earth satellite, by Russia on October 4, 1957.

The last date of World Space Week recognizes the signing of the Treaty on October 10, 1967.

In 2007, i.e. 50th anniversary of the launch of Sputnik-1, the World Space Week was celebrated in 54 countries and in . In space, Bigelow Aerospace illuminated its Genesis spacecraft with the World Space Week and beamed photos that week to Earth.

Sputnik-1was the first Earth satellite.

The surprise success of Soviet Union in space exploration precipitated the American Sputnik crisis, began the and triggered the Space Race, a part of the larger .

After several failed attempts, the US successfully launched a satellite, , on 31 January 1958.

The space race culminated in the U.S. landing in 1969.

The Outer Space Treaty, formally the Treaty on Governing the Activities of States in the Exploration and Use of Outer Space, including the Moon and Other Bodies, is a treaty that forms the basis of international .

As of October 2011, 100 countries were states to the treaty,

Among its principles, the outer space treaty bars States Parties to the Treaty from placing weapons or any other weapons of in orbit of Earth, installing them on the Moon or any other celestial body, or to otherwise station them in space.

The treaty explicitly forbids any government from claiming a celestial resource such as the Moon or a planet, claiming that they are the Common of mankind.

In terms of the treaty, States Parties shall bear international for national space activities whether carried out by governmental or non-governmental entities.

The Moon Treaty, referring to the agreement governing the Activities of States on the Moon and Other Celestial Bodies, is a failed treaty since it has not been by any nation which engages in self-launched manned space exploration or has plans to do so.