Appendix C
Excerpts from The Operations Coordinating Board's "Operations Plan for Outer Space" 18 March 1959[1]
A.Objectives 1. Develop and exploit U.S. outer space capabilities as needed to achieve scientific, military, and political purposes, and to establish the U.S. as a recognized leader in this field.
2. As consistent with U.S. security, achieve international cooperation in the uses of and activities related to outer space for peaceful purposes and with selected allies for military purposes.
3. As consistent with U.S. security, achieve suitable international agreements relating to the uses of outer space for peaceful purposes that will assure orderly development and regulation of national and international outer space programs.
4. Utilize the potential of outer space to assist in programs of scientific cooperation.
F. International Considerations
19. Establishment of an International Framework for Outer Space Programs
a. International Outer Space Law. In order to be prepared to meet proposals which may be made by other countries and to deal with other practical problems as they may arise, the U.S. should develop a catalogue of the possible legal issues involved
in outer space programs and should analyze specific cases with a view to initiating, where it may be necessary, the formulation of definite U.S. legal positions.
- ↑ Draft Operations Plan for Outer Space dated 18 March 1959, approved by Operations Coordinating Board, 25 March 1959, Bromley Smith, Executive Director.
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