European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - March 14, 1987, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Magazine space Ward to framing a planetary lifestyle Byj Bulpett associated presso be of the charms of Washington is that while an angry Congress up the Street was investigating the kale of american arms to an avowed enemy while across town the slate department was being told by its negotiators in Geneva that the world was safer from nuclear Wrath while 12 people were killed in riots in South Africa and Many More died in wars in Afghanistan Nicaragua ran and Iraq while in a score o places around the Earth Mankind continued to show a questionable ability to govern its own planet a group of americans with the Blessing of government gathered in Washington to discuss How the human race might civilize space. Lawyers scholars educators historians and space specialists including the last human being to walk on the Moon they came together to Frame a declaration of firs principles Tor the governance of space  it is a wooden title Lor a fascinating Effort to produce something Between Iho american declaration of Independence and the . Constitution hat might ensure thai people from Earth will find peace and Freedom on other planets and the neighbourhoods in Between. Al this stage the 22 conferees Are not yet Clear whether they have in mind a celestial new nation Colony territory or 51 is state of the United states but they Are confident that space colonization is As inevitable As the Westward movement of Man was in 1492. In their Effort to form a More perfect universe these thinkers Are thinking now of american seiners in space sent there in american spaceships. They say the unites states should now proclaim that these seniors ultimately will be free to determine their own destiny to govern themselves and become Independent of inc planet they left behind. History might have produced a precedent had George Iii sent Oil colonists to the new world Wilh written permission to hold a Tea party. The current intellectual Effort to carry Earth s unrequited Hopes of Ranqui tily to he stars is sponsored jointly by the smithsonian institution and Ine Center for democracy of Boston University. The conferees met and will meet again in the National air and space museum a spectacular Monument to human Progress and failure. Here Are the Craft the Wright brokers flew at Kitty Hawk Cloies Lindbergh flew to Paris astronauts fancied on the Moon and nameless pilots flew in the great wars that did t end War. We need to try to ind ways to save space from the problems of Earth said George s. Robinson associate general counsel of the smithsonian and a prims mover of the conference. We need to think about How to avoid the colonialism and revolution the nationalism and War that accompanied the evolution of societies on this  Robinson who holds three Law degrees including a doctoral in space Law. Thinks that the rules of conduct by which humans live on Earth will have to be modified for life out there. Living in the alien synthetic environment of another planet or a Colony orbiting in the void of Zero Gravity to says will modify human functions and perceptions. Due process negligence reasonable behaviour even homicide might require new definition. Rabinson cited the three astronauts of Apollo 13 who returned from the Moon in 1970 with their air purifiers failing and their oxygen dwindling. Suppose he said the computers had shown that one Man would have id die so the other two could live. Would that have been intentional acceptable homicide these prospects did not daunt assembled apace thinkers who arc conf Don human sell Omen Mil i via is Desi Robto and inexorable Man s restless curiosity Wal to Iho he prop Oilang they said. Several prodded 1h.il Iho first Soullo s will to Iho sons and daughters of people now Alvo on Earth David Challinor assistant Secretary Lor research Al the smithsonian. Thought the movement would each full stride by the Middle of Ifie not Century. Carl Christol protestor of International Law at Iho University of Southern California and chair Man of Iho aerospace Law Commil Lee of Iho american bar association though it important to Sti Gulalo i hat no one should be forced Inlo apace. That seemed to suggest that some unnamed country on Earth might try to use the stars As a galactic gulag i believe said Harrison Schmidt Lormer Asl ponnut and United s lates senator lha the discovery exploitation and settlement of North America look Placa in a More hostile and constraining environment than we will experience in  Schmill the last of the Apollo astronauts to trod the Moon in 1972, is confident bold his old Campus end Mars will one Day be colonized for human development. Thai provisos la be peaceful. So far. The United states the soviet Union and new other countries signed a treaty in 1967 in which they renounced the right to claim any sovereignty build any military base tool any weapons or conduct any military Maneu vers on the Moon and other celestial  when they agree on a space document. The current framers Hope to sign and celebrate it in a grand ceremony attended by the president leaders of Congress and Tho chief Justice to coincide Uilah the Bicentennial of the . Constitution next year. Thiol Hope to gain global approval at the United nations the following year. Meanwhile the space seminarians have gone Tome armed with a tentative list of principles for study amendment and improvement. Of All lha manifestos of Man since the world began surely this one has the farthest reach. There shall be it says Universal respect Lor human rights without distinction As to race sex language religion National or planetary  it proclaims for everyone out there the right of self determination of Freedom of speech thought movement Ana privacy in a Cosmos thai renounces Force except for sell defense. Ii insists that each space Farer shall have the right to Purchase own control and dispose of private properly including space objects located anywhere in lha universe the right to construct operate and navigate spacecraft anywhere in the universe and inc right to leave or to return o any celestial body including Earth or space settlement and to enjoy unimpeded transit anywhere in the  the participants went Home agreed thai space should be the common Heril Geof Mankind which could proves Sticky wicket if other forms of life turn up to contest the will. Depletion of a settlement on Mars in the 21st Century. Saturday March 14, 1967 the stars and stripes Page 13