Essay: KEEPING LAW & ORDER IN SPACE

IN all his long upward odyssey, man has never been confronted with anything quite like it. It is an ocean without shore, yet it bathes every nation's border. It is a military "high ground" of measureless potential, yet no nation has so far dared to exploit it. It is a resource of such proportions that man has only begun to tap it. And in all this vast province of opportunity called space, no writ runs. All the experience of quest and conquest, of discovery and exploration of the earth provides scant precedent for dealing...

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