Date

Source

May 26, 1955

R. Cargill Hall, “The
Evolution of U.S. National Security Space Policy and its Legal Foundations in
the 20th Century,” Journal of Space Law 33:1 (Summer
2007), 10. 

https://stimson.org/space/pdf/JSL_R_Cargill_Hall.pdf.

May 16, 1956

Hall, 13-16.

October 4, 1957

Paul Stares, The Militarization
of Space: U.S. Policy, 1945-1984 (Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press,
1985), 39; https://www.nytimes.com/partners/aol/special/sputnik/.

January 22, 1958

Hall, 16-18.

June 20, 1958

Stephanie Feyock (ed.), Presidential
Decisions: NSC Documents (Washington, D.C.: The George C. Marshall
Institute, 2006), 21-54.

December 13, 1958

James Clay Moltz, The Politics
of Space Security, (Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2008), 98; https://www.unoosa.org/oosa/SpaceLaw/gares/html/gares_13_1348.html.

December 12, 1959

Moltz, 102-3 (Note: date and
resolution number in Moltz are incorrect); https://www.unoosa.org/oosa/en/SpaceLaw/gares/html/gares_14_1472.html.

December 17, 1959

Feyock, 55-80.

January 18, 1961

Hall, 18-19.

December 20, 1961

Moltz, 110, 142; https://www.unoosa.org/pdf/gares/ARES_16_1721E.pdf.

May 26, 1962

Feyock, 95;

July 2, 1962

Feyock, 102; https://www.state.gov/r/pa/ho/frus/kennedyjf/xxv/6025.htm.

July 9, 1962

Feyock, 97; https://www.jfklibrary.org/Asset+Tree/Asset+Viewers/Image+Asset+Viewer.htm?guid=%7BA48C3845-A852-4BE6-ABF4-9E2A142AEFA7%7D&type=Image; Raymond L. Garthoff, “Banning the Bomb in Outer Space,” International
Security 5:3 (Winter 1980-1).

October 17, 1962

Garthoff.

June 10, 1963

https://www.americanrhetoric.com/speeches/jfkamericanuniversityaddress.html

June 21, 1963

Garthoff.

July 25, 1963

https://www.jfklibrary.org/Historical+Resources/JFK+in+History/Nuclear+Test+Ban+Treaty.htm.

August 5, 1963

Garthoff.

September 19, 1963

https://www.state.gov/t/ac/trt/5181.htm

October 10, 1963

https://www.state.gov/t/ac/trt/4797.htm

October 17, 1963

Moltz, 141.

December 13, 1963

https://www.unoosa.org/oosa/en/SpaceLaw/gares/html/gares_18_1962.html

March 3, 1964

Hall, 22.

August 20, 1964

https://www.intelsat.com/about-us/history/intelsat-1960s.asp.

September 23, 1965

Stares, 101.

April 5, 1966

Stares, 101-2.

June 16, 1966

https://www.state.gov/t/ac/trt/5181.htm

July 29, 1966

Hall, 22-24.

July 12 – August 4, 1966

Stares, 102.

September 15, 1966

Stares, 102; Moltz, 149, 150.

September 17 – December 7, 1966

Stares, 102.

December 8, 1966

Stares, 102.

January 27, 1967

https://www.state.gov/t/ac/trt/5181.htm#signatory

April 25, 1967

Stares, 104.

July 12, 1967

Hall, 24-26.

October 10, 1967

https://www.state.gov/t/ac/trt/5181.htm

April 22, 1968

https://www.unoosa.org/oosa/en/SpaceLaw/treaties.html

December 3, 1968

https://www.jaxa.jp/library/space_law/chapter_1/1-2-2-7_e.html

January 20, 1969

https://www.state.gov/t/ac/trt/5191.htm

November 17 – December 22, 1969

Moltz, 165; https://www.state.gov/t/ac/trt/5191.htm.

July 10, 1970

Hall, 27-28.

July 17, 1970

Hall, 28-29.

October 25 – 28, 1970

Moltz, 165; “Soviet Scientist
Hails Apollo Courage and Skill,” New York Times, 31 Dec. 1968,
quoted in https://history.nasa.gov/SP-4209/ch4-2.htm.

November 15, 1971

Moltz, 166.

March 29, 1972

https://www.mcgill.ca/iasl/research/treaties/space_law/liability/

April 6, 1972

Moltz, 166.

May 26, 1972

https://www.state.gov/t/vci/trty/101888.htm

August 30, 1972

Hall, 29.

September 1, 1972

https://www.unoosa.org/oosa/en/SpaceLaw/gares/html/gares_26_2777.html

November 12, 1974

https://www.unoosa.org/pdf/gares/ARES_29_3235E.pdf; Moltz, 29; https://www.unoosa.org/oosa/SORegister/regist.html

July 15, 1975

Moltz, 173; https://history.nasa.gov/apollo/apsoyhist.html.

July 7, 1976

Hall, 30-31.

September 15, 1976

https://www.unoosa.org/oosa/en/SORegister/regist.html

January 18, 1977

Feyock, 143-5; https://www.ford.utexas.edu/library/document/nsdmnssm/nsdm345a.htm.

March 9, 1977

Stares, 181.

March 28, 1977

Stares, 182-3; https://www.hq.nasa.gov/office/codez/new/policy/prm-23.htm.

March 27 – 30, 1977

Stares, 181; https://www.state.gov/r/pa/ho/trvl/ls/13038.htm.

March 10, 1978

Feyock, p. 153; https://www.jimmycarterlibrary.org/documents/pddirectives/pd33.pdf

May 11, 1978

Feyock, p. 155-6; https://www.jimmycarterlibrary.org/documents/pddirectives/pd37.pdf

June 8-16, 1978

Paul B. Stares, “Space and U.S.
National Security,” in William J. Durch (ed.), National Interests and the
Military Use of Space, (Cambridge, MA: Ballinger Publishing Company,
1984), 40.

October 10, 1978

Feyock, 163-4; https://www.jimmycarterlibrary.org/documents/pddirectives/pd42.pdf.

January 23 – February 19, 1979

Stares in Durch, 40.

April 23 – June 17, 1979

Stares in Durch, 40.

November 16, 1979

Hall, 42-43.

December 18, 1979

https://www.mcgill.ca/iasl/research/treaties/space_law/moon/

August 20, 1981

Nandasiri Jasentuliyana, International
Space Law and the United Nations, 78; link

November 18, 1981

Hall, 43-45.

July 4, 1982

Feyock, 183-4, 192; https://www.fas.org/spp/military/docops/national/nsdd-42.htm.

August 6, 1982

Hall, 51-52.

December 10, 1982

https://www.unoosa.org/pdf/gares/ARES_37_92E.pdf

March 23, 1983

https://www.cnn.com/SPECIALS/cold.war/episodes/22/documents/starwars.speech.

May 16, 1983

Hall, 52-54.

May 18, 1983

https://www.fas.org/rlg/051883TLAW_Draft_Treaty_Limiting_ASAT_Weapns.pdf.

August 19, 1983

Marietta Benko, Willem De Graaff
and Gijsbertha C.M. Reijnen, Space Law in the United Nations, 168;
link

January 6, 1984

Hall, 54-55.

March 31, 1984

Stares, 233.

July 5, 1984

https://www.fas.org/spp/starwars/offdocs/nsdd142.htm.

July 11, 1984

https://www.unoosa.org/oosa/en/SpaceLaw/gares/html/gares_34_0068.html.

February 25, 1985

Hall, 60.

March 12, 1985

https://www.fas.org/nuke/control/abmt/chron.htm.

May 30, 1985

Feyock, p. 236-7; https://www.fas.org/spp/starwars/offdocs/nsdd172.htm.

September 13, 1985

Moltz, 202; https://www.astronautix.com/craft/asat.htm.

February 4 – April 25, 1986

https://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m1309/is_v23/ai_4539742, U.N. Chronicle, August 1986.

December 3, 1986

https://www.unoosa.org/pdf/gares/ARES_41_65E.pdf.

December 27, 1986

Hall, 61-62.

April 16, 1987

https://www.fas.org/nuke/control/mtcr/chron.htm; https://www.mtcr.info/english/partners.html.

December 7-10, 1987

https://www.fas.org/nuke/control/abmt/chron.htm.

January 5, 1988

https://www.globalsecurity.org/space/library/policy/national/policy88.htm.

September 5, 1990

Hall, 75.

February 11, 1991

Hall, 75-76.

July 10, 1991

Hall, 76-77.

March 9, 1992

Hall, 77-79.

December 14, 1992

https://www.un.org/documents/ga/res/47/a47r068.htm

January 3, 1993

Moltz, 234; https://www.fas.org/nuke/control/start2/index.html.

March 9, 1994

Hall, 79-81.

May 5, 1994

Hall, 81-83.

August 5, 1994

Hall, 83-86.

September 14, 1996

Hall, 86-92.

December 13, 1996

https://www.unoosa.org/pdf/gares/ARES_51_122E.pdf

October 17, 1997

https://www.armscontrol.org/act/1997_10/miracloct

October 21, 1997

https://www.armscontrol.org/act/1997_10/miracloct

June 4, 2000

https://cns.miis.edu/opapers/op10/op10.pdf
, 37

December 16, 2000

https://cns.miis.edu/opapers/op10/op10.pdf
, 37

January 11, 2001

https://www.dod.mil/pubs/space20010111.html.

June 28, 2002

https://disarmament.un.org/cd/cd-docs2002.html; see link to CD/1679.

June 26, 2004

https://www.ustr.gov/sites/default/files/Galileo%20Report%20Final.pdf

June 9, 2005

https://www.geneva.mid.ru/speeches/36.html

September 15, 2005

https://www.unog.ch/__80256ee600585943.nsf/(httpPages)/b8b81436293bcd6ac1256f5600559bf9?OpenDocument&ExpandSection=4#_Section4; see link to CD/1756

December 1-2, 2005

https://www.unoosa.org/oosa/en/SAP/gnss/icg.html

January 11, 2007

https://celestrak.com/events/asat.asp; https://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/6276543.stm.

February 12-23, 2007

https://www.unoosa.org/pdf/reports/ac105/AC105_890E.pdf

June 6-15, 2007

https://www.unoosa.org/pdf/gadocs/A_62_20E.pdf

February 20, 2008

https://www.defenselink.mil/releases/release.aspx?releaseid=11704

December 3, 2008

https://register.consilium.europa.eu/doc/srv?l=EN&t=PDF&gc=true&sc=false&f=ST%2017175%202008%20INIT&r=http%3A%2F%2Fregister.consilium.europa.eu%2Fpd%2Fen%2F+08%2Fst17%2Fst17175.en08.pdf

February 10, 2009

https://www.thespacereview.com/article/2023/1

Nov. 27, 2009

https://swfound.org/media/29039/space%20security%20index%202010%20full%20report.pdf

February 10, 2009

https://www.thespacereview.com/article/2023/1

March 7, 2009

https://swfound.org/media/29039/space%20security%20index%202010%20full%20report.pdf

May 14, 2009

https://swfound.org/media/29039/space%20security%20index%202010%20full%20report.pdf

November 27,2009

https://swfound.org/media/29039/space%20security%20index%202010%20full%20report.pdf

April 22, 2010

https://www.spacesecurity.org/space.security.2011.revised.pdf

November 3, 2010

https://www.spacesecurity.org/space.security.2011.revised.pdf

January 19, 2011

https://www.defense.gov/home/features/2011/0111_nsss/docs/NationalSecuritySpaceStrategyUnclassifiedSummary_Jan2011.pdf

July 8, 2011

https://www.spacesecurity.org/space.security.2011.revised.pdf

September 24, 2011

https://earthsky.org/space/where-will-nasas-uars-satellite-land

November 11, 2011

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-24894611

December 23, 2011

https://www.upi.com/Science_News/2011/12/23/Russian-satellite-crashes-in-failed-launch/UPI-34291324667658/

December 29, 2011

https://www.google.com/search?q=chinese+white+paper+space+2011&oq=chinese+white+paper+space+2011&aqs=chrome.0.69i59j0.2384j0j4&sourceid=chrome&espv=210&es_sm=93&ie=UTF-8

January 11, 2012

https://www.spacesecurity.org/SSI2013.pdf

October 10, 2012

https://www.spacesecurity.org/SSI2013.pdf

October 18, 2012

https://www.dtic.mil/whs/directives/corres/pdf/310010p.pdf

October 3, 2013

https://defensetech.org/2013/10/03/chinese-satellite-grabs-another-in-orbit/

November 21, 2013

https://www.whitehouse.gov/sites/default/files/microsites/ostp/national_space_transportation_policy_fact_sheet_11212013.pdf