Saving astronauts in the New Space Economy scenario

Abstract

If humanitarian law makes it possible to extend the obligation of rescue to space stations and relief to the astronauts working there, a much more problematic issue arises from the prospect, now no longer merely theoretical, of populating outer space. The result is a discipline that, sufficient at the time of the first space race, now appears extremely deficient in regulating all the space activities that are at the heart of the New Space Economy.