ARTICLE NINE
We encourage all Parties to expand on these accords through their initiatives and agreements for mutual benefits to themselves and to all Governments and peoples in the peaceful use of space.
The References
ASTROLAW. Carrying Human Rights into Outer Space.
George S. Robinson, The Futurist, May-June 1990.
BIOSPHERE. A New Consciousness for a New Century. Jeremy Rifkin, 1991, Crown Publishers. (How industrialized nations exploit the sea beds of the world for industrial minerals, especially as land-based minerals are depleted.)
COSMIC WORMHOLES. The Search for Interstellar
Shortcuts. Paul Halpern, 1992, Dutton, Penguin Group,
New York, NY.
MINING THE SKY. Untold Riches from the Asteroids, Comets, and Planets. John S. Lewis, 1997, Helix Books, Addison-Wesley, Reading, MA. (Foreseeable technologies may reveal huge quantities of raw materials from space.)
MONITORING AND CONTROLLING DEBRIS IN SPACE.
Nicholas Johnson. August, 1998, Scientific American.
OPENING THE DOOR ON TIME MACHINES. Caltech physicist Kip Thorne explores the limits of Einstein's theory of gravity, where spunnels — or tunnels through space — lurk. (K. C. Cole, Times Science Writer, The Los Angeles Times, February 13, 1998.)
RE-EXAMINING OUR CONSTITUTIONAL HERITAGE.
A Declaration of First Principles for the
Governance of Outer Space Societies.
(An Essay by George S. Robinson, 1989,
High Technology Law Journal, School of Law,
University of California, Berkeley.)