Agreement on rescue of astronauts (1968)

The agreement on rescue of astronauts – the multilateral international legal act defining the principles of cooperation of the states searching, rescue of crews of spaceships and rendering to it helps. The document was accepted by UNGA  on December 19, 1967. It is open for signing on April 22, 1968 and came into force on December 3, 1968. Depositaries of the document are Russian Federation, United Kingdom and United States of America. According to article 1 of the Agreement each contracting party which receives data or finds out that the crew of the spaceship crashed, or is in...