ABSTRACT
Generally Law should be clear. Thus the OST statement of principles provides clearly for rights and duties, as well as providing in the case of claims as to sovereignty that such rights are excluded (OST Art. II). In relation to astronauts specific treaty-based duties provide for how states are to consider and treat astronauts. Notably there are duties as to their ‘rescue and return’. However, the emergence of the ‘space tourist’ casts doubt on the ambit or content of the concept of ‘astronaut’.
