Comments on: NASA and Australia sign extension of space-tracking agreement https://behindtheblack.com/behind-the-black/points-of-information/nasa-and-australia-sign-extension-of-space-tracking-agreement/ Mon, 06 Nov 2017 23:52:06 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 By: James Mahoney https://behindtheblack.com/behind-the-black/points-of-information/nasa-and-australia-sign-extension-of-space-tracking-agreement/#comment-1021501 Mon, 06 Nov 2017 23:52:06 +0000 http://behindtheblack.com/?p=48364#comment-1021501 With regard to the language in your article referring to “The Treaty covers civil space facilities OWNED by NASA and located within Australia…” it bears clarification that NASA doesn’t “own” the facilities except as defined by the actual treaty, to wit: Pursuant to the Agreement between the U.S. and Australia, NASA only retains title to “equipment, materials, supplies and other movable property acquired in Australia by it or on its behalf at its own expense…”.

]]> By: Dick Eagleson https://behindtheblack.com/behind-the-black/points-of-information/nasa-and-australia-sign-extension-of-space-tracking-agreement/#comment-1017680 Thu, 19 Oct 2017 10:39:41 +0000 http://behindtheblack.com/?p=48364#comment-1017680 Australia seemed content for many decades to follow the British lead and fight shy of all that Buck Rogers stuff, contenting themselves with just being landlords to a few daft Yanks manning listening posts in the outback.

But that, of course, was before Middle Earth started doing rockets in a serious way.

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