Space Law
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When President John F Kennedy stood before Rice University on 12 September 1962 and boldly declared that not only would the US be the first country to land on the moon, but they would do it before the end of the decade, he captured the imagination of a generation.
While it would be nearly seven years before Neil Armstrong would set foot on the moon, the legacy of the landing would propel space travel from the realms of fiction to reality. The speech would also lay the foundation for the first space race between the US and USSR, an extension of the political chest-thumping that characterised the Cold War.
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