{"id":431,"date":"2005-03-18T05:57:41","date_gmt":"2005-03-18T11:57:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.fantasist.net\/scroll\/?p=431"},"modified":"2005-03-18T05:57:41","modified_gmt":"2005-03-18T11:57:41","slug":"space-treaty","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fantasist.net\/scroll\/index.php\/2005\/03\/18\/space-treaty\/","title":{"rendered":"Space Treaty"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yep, we&#8217;ve got one.<br \/>\nConsidering the funding cutbacks at NASA, this seems like a really &#8220;forward thinking&#8221; document to me, but the United States Government has a non-armmament space treaty.  Or, more specifically, &#8220;<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.state.gov\/www\/global\/arms\/treaties\/space1.html\">TREATY ON PRINCIPLES GOVERNING THE ACTIVITIES OF STATES IN THE EXPLORATION AND USE OF OUTER SPACE, INCLUDING THE MOON AND OTHER CELESTIAL BODIES<\/a>&#8220;.  Basically, it says that we&#8217;ll all play nice up there.  It&#8217;s not clear who actually signed this treaty, but it does mention that there are copies in the following languages: English, Russian, French, Spanish and Chinese.   I find that all interesting in light of the so-called &#8220;Star Wars&#8221; program and all the research the Russians did into space-based weapons platforms.<br \/>\nAnyway, it&#8217;s the most fun link I could find this Friday.  So, go have fun reading the boring government document!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yep, we&#8217;ve got one. Considering the funding cutbacks at NASA, this seems like a really &#8220;forward thinking&#8221; document to me, but the United States Government has a non-armmament space treaty. Or, more specifically, &#8220;TREATY ON PRINCIPLES GOVERNING THE ACTIVITIES OF STATES IN THE EXPLORATION AND USE OF OUTER SPACE, INCLUDING THE MOON AND OTHER CELESTIAL [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[29,27,14,28,30],"tags":[247,594],"class_list":["post-431","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fantastic-and-surreal","category-fun","category-news-and-current-events","category-science-and-technology","category-science-fiction","tag-national-aeronautics-and-space-administration","tag-united-states-government"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fantasist.net\/scroll\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/431","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fantasist.net\/scroll\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fantasist.net\/scroll\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fantasist.net\/scroll\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fantasist.net\/scroll\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=431"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.fantasist.net\/scroll\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/431\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fantasist.net\/scroll\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=431"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fantasist.net\/scroll\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=431"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fantasist.net\/scroll\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=431"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}