Talk:Space policy

We need to include the Soviet Union
The Soviet Union, even though now defunct, was obviously a major player in the Space Race and the start of the "Space Age" (maybe a forgotten or over-used term now). It was governed quite differently from the current Russian Federation, therefore its space policy process had to be different, so it can't be bundled in with Russia. Notwithstanding that we don't currently have any information on its space policy process, so I've placed an expand-section template. JustinTime55 (talk) 13:52, 28 August 2015 (UTC)

Focus on space policy
Notice how we define space policy in the lead: "Space policy is a country's political decision-making process for, and application of, public policy regarding spaceflight and uses of outer space, ..." Notice the Chinese, Russian (and Ukraine) entries don't say much if anything about the political decision-making process, focusing instead about specific space programs (or in the case of China, declarations of intent by the state agency. Simply listing the programs isn't a sufficient substitute for the political process. And notice, the Soviet section is blank. The European section is so-so; at least it doesn't focus on space programs, but could use more info on the process.

Lack of focus caused by failure to understand the essence of the topic (or to cover the fact we don't know much else) is a sign of ameturish or inept writing.

We seem to have the best handle on the US policy, given the US's open society, democratic form of government. One would expect we could get smilar insight for Europe, Russia and Ukraine, which are (supposedly) democracies now as well. We seem to have virtually no insight into the policy workings of the Soviet Union or China, which were / are totalitarian dictatorships. It would be nice to replace the expand-section template (and augment the China section) with space policy information as we define it. It's embarrassing and self-conscious to write in essence, "There must be verifiable information about this somewhere, but we don't know how to find reliable sources." What to do? Expert help needed? JustinTime55 (talk) 14:35, 28 August 2015 (UTC)

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Five or six international treaties?
As far as I can tell, the Partial Test Ban Treaty has been subsumed by the Outer Space Treaty, at least insofar as outer space is concerned. If so, should it be removed from this article? It could instead be kept for historical interest, but the difference should be made clear. E.g., it doesn't seem accurate to say that "There are currently six treaties that make up the body of international space law" or "International space law consists of six international treaties" if the sixth is redundant (admittedly I did just change that first line from "five" to "six" for consistency's sake, but I didn't want to be too heavy-handed and just get rid of the PTBT). Tumnal (talk) 15:06, 21 October 2023 (UTC)