24-Jun-2018: United Nations Office for Outer Space Affairs(UNOOSA) celebrates 50th anniversary of the first United Nations Conference on the Exploration and Peaceful uses of Outer Space

The international community gathered in Vienna to celebrate the fiftieth anniversary of the first United Nations Conference on the Exploration and Peaceful Uses of Outer Space with a dedicated event UNISPACE+50. It provided a great opportunity for the international community to convene and consider the future course of global space cooperation for the benefit of humankind.

UNISPACE+50, the first United Nations Global Space Summit of the 21st Century, is a milestone opportunity to further demonstrate the broad societal benefits of space as an area of innovation, inspiration, interconnectedness, integration and investment, and to strengthen unified efforts at all levels and among all relevant stakeholders of the space sector in addressing the overarching long-term development concerns of society with concrete deliverables pertaining to space for development.

UNISPACE+50 consisted of two main parts: A UNISPACE+50 Symposium, aimed at the broader space community, on 18 and 19 June; and A special UNISPACE+50 High-level Segment of the 61st session of the Committee on the Peaceful Uses of Outer Space (COPUOS) on 20 and 21 June.

In addition, a UNISPACE+50 exhibition consisting of around 40 exhibitors was held in the Rotunda of the VIC from 18 to 23 June.