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307 (Special Edition) |  Listen to the show! | | Aired on February 13th, 2005 | | Guest: Wayne White |
| Wayne White returned to The Space Show today to discuss in an extra long Space Show program exciting developments in space law and space property rights. Mr. White began his discussion with a presentation on the history and current state of space law. We opened the lines for questions and comments after the first break and Wayne continued his discussion and update, answering and commenting on questions, and helping us to understand many of the complexities of space law and property rights issues. Early on Mr. White was asked about a December 2004 Space Show program regarding telepossession. As the guest on that show suggested asking Wayne for confirmation of his theories, Wayne was asked and he gave us both a legal and a scholarly view on the telepossession issue. This discussion led to additional questions and comments about international and U.S. law, mining law, salvage law and space, The Law of the Sea, and more. You will certainly want to hear what Mr. White had to say about these legal issues and the important idea of telepossession, plus its potential uses as we push out to become space-faring. We also discussed the UN treaties, withdrawing from the Outer-Space Treaty, and the sale of lots on the Moon and elsewhere in space by those individuals and companies handling these sales and stating that they are legal. This discussion led to a brief summary of the differences between the European law which generally strives to have more consumer and citizen protection than US law which still maintains a frontier component within it, hence the differences in the approach to the lunar land sale programs in the US , Europe and elsewhere. We also discussed the process of registration for space bodies and projects per the UN treaties as compared to the registration website at the Archimedes URL, http://www.permanent.com/archimedes/PropertyRegistry.html. As a result of questions by listeners and comments regarding some of the registered information on the Archimedes site, Mr. White did explain its usefulness but stated that it was probably not a legal registry, especially in light of the decision recently handed down in the Nemitz case before the U.S. Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals regarding charging rent to NASA for landing on an asteroid that Mr. Nemitz had previously claimed through the Archimedes registry and through other means as well. Mr. White discussed this case in some detail, his Amicus Brief, and his agreement with the finding of the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals. Toward the end of this program, Mr. White referenced several quality websites for additional information on space law. Those websites are listed below. Also, listeners who want to get in touch with Mr. White can do so by sending your comments and messages through me at drspace@thespaceshow.com. Mr. White will return to the program later this year for more updates.
Mr. White's space law references:
UN Office of Outer Space Affairs http://www.oosa.unvienna.org/
NASAWatch http://www.nasawatch.com/
SpaceLawStation http://www.spacelawstation.com/index.html.
Greg Nemitz - Eros property case http://www.erosproject.com/
International Institute of Space Law http://www.iafastro-iisl.com/
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| About our guest... |
Wayne White
Wayne White is an attorney who works for an aerospace contractor.
He is currently the Contract Manager for NASA's Constellation Space Suit System prime contract. He is the author of many articles, and a frequent speaker in the field of national and international space law. Mr. White graduated from Chapman University, received a Masters Degree in Business Administration from U.C. Riverside, and received his law
degree from U.C. Davis. Mr. White has previously served as a member of the U.S. delegation to the UN Committee on the Peaceful Uses of Outer Space, Legal\ Subcommittee; as Associate Director of the National Remote Sensing and Space Law Center at the University of Mississippi; and as a member of the General Counsel's office of the University of California. Wayne has also served as a Director of the National Space
Society, and Chair of the Society's International Space Development Conference in 2002. He has been a member of the International Institute of Space Law for many years.
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