02. How does sovereignty apply to space? (A K2S Question)

From The Space Library

The issue of sovereignty is very important in space. Space was being explored just as World War II and western colonial empires were ending and the Cold War was beginning. During the Cold War neither the Americans nor the Soviets wanted the other to have sovereignty in space—to claim space as their own. Also, many of the newly independent post-colonial nations did not want any other nation (America, the Soviet Union, Britain, or France, for example) to begin a new colonialism in space that would replace the old on Earth.

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Answer provided by Christopher Stott

Question and Answer extracted from the book Kids to Space - by Lonnie Schorer

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