FEDERAL LAW- Star Wars was and is Illegal- based on this Federal Public Law- Pub. L. No. 85-568,
72 Stat. 426-438 (Jul. 29, 1958)
http://history.nasa.gov/spaceact-legishistory.pdf
AN ACT
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To provide for research into problems of flight within and outside the earth's atmosphere,
and for other purposes.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America
in Congress assembled,
TITLE I-SHORT TITLE, DECLARATION OF POLICY, AND DEFINITIONS
SHORT TITLE
Sec. 101. This Act may be cited as the “National Aeronautics and Space Act of 1958”.
DECLARATION OF POLICY AND PURPOSE Sec. 102.
(a) The Congress hereby declares that it is the policy of the United States that
activities in space should be devoted to peaceful purposes for the benefit of all mankind.
(b) The Congress declares that the general welfare and security of the United States requirethat adequate provision be made for aeronautical and space activities. The Congress further declares that such activities shall be the responsibility of, and shall be directed by, a civilian agency exercising control over aeronautical and space activities sponsored by the United States,
except that activities peculiar to or primarily associated with the development of weapons systems, military operations, or the defense of the United States (including the research and development necessary to make effective provision for the defense of the United States) shall be the responsibility of, and shall be directed by, the Department of Defense; and that
determination as to which such agency has responsibility for and direction of any such activity
shall be made by the President in conformity with section 2471(e).
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