Determination of Legal Regime Governing Commercial - Tourism Space Flights

Space tourism is one of the most newfangled space activities. Vehicles which are used in order to transfer persons into space have hybrid nature and are called space-plane. Besides, the boundary between air space and outer space still is not determined. Unfortunately, commercial space flights are not mentioned in space treaties. These facts make the determination of legal regime governing on commercial space flights much more difficult. Therefore, experts of international law suggested two approaches (special and practical). In this article, at first these two approaches will be studied and the legal regime governing space flights will be determined, then the issue of private sector’s liability will be under consideration.