Space Activists Take Action At United Nations Conference To Reduce Lunar Tensions

Buzz Aldrin Footprint in Lunar surface on Aug 7, 2017, (NASA/NASA) A close-up of astronaut Buzz Aldrin's boot print in the lunar soil, photographed during the Apollo 11 mission in 1969. Over the next year the USA, Russia, Japan, Spain, Germany, India, Canada and Mexico all have missions or payloads heading back to the Moon. (NASA) © Z News Inc.

The escalating space race between China and the U.S. has attracted the attention of a United Nations working group and civil society activists.

The UN Committee on the Peaceful Use of Outer Space, a meeting held by the Office for Outer Space Affairs, is currently holding its 62nd legal subcommittee meeting in Vienna to write new rules regarding how space-faring powers deal with each other in space.