The Final Legal Frontier: Star Trek and the Evolution of the Space Law
In October 1957, the launch of Sputnik transformed outer space from science fiction into reality. What had long belonged to magazines, books and cinematic fantasy suddenly became a domain of power competition. Throughout the Cold War, the Space Race (roughly 1955–1975) a fast pace period of space exploration, unfolded technological rivalry and ideological spectacle with the United States and the Soviet Union, projecting visions of modernity, power, and destiny beyond Earth’s atmosphere....
