2007 : 50 YEAR SPACE ANNIVERSARY

• On the 4th of October 1957 the Soviet Union launched Sputnik-1 signalling the start of the 'Space Age'. Although man had been observing and researching the space environment for long before this, the launch of the first artificial satellite into low-Earth orbit did indeed signal the commencement of a new era of activity and the start of many different endeavours related to a physical presence in a new realm.
  • Sputnik-1
  • 50th session of the United Nations Committee for the Peaceful Uses of Outer Space (COPUOS)
  • 40th anniversary of the United Nations Outer Space Treaty