While the explicit declaration of the mandate of a military space force may be relatively clear, the short term aims of such a military force, once established, are less so. Aside from the possibilities of resurrecting a Star Wars program or a replacement of NSAS style programs with a more militaristic bent, there seems little to recommend itself as a potential mandate for any military focused space force to follow in the immediate future. This paper will argue that the best mandate for the immediate direction of any newly created military space force is to solve the problem of space debris in Earth’s orbit. The problem of space debris in Earth’s orbit is at once urgent and immaterial. On the one hand, instances such as the recent loss of Russia’s control over a satellite illustrate the urgency of the potential dangers of being locked onto the Earth for the near future. Alternatively, much like Kant’s guarantee of perpetual peace, this problem will eventually be solved by the natural progression of humanity’s drive to progress. Nonetheless, our attempt at addressing the issue is imperative for present and near future persons utilizing the benefits of space travel and exploration. Specifically, within a military context, this is an implicit area of denial effect. Without the use of the space arena, many essential military and governmental services are lost. This constitutes a threat to every nation with such space dependent systems. Further, as an implicit function of the military is to promote the well-being of the citizenry, the potential loss of future research and exploration possibilities becomes the responsibility of the military to prevent. Thus, the problem of space debris in Earth’s orbit is an environmental problem with potentially immediate and catastrophic consequences. The scale of the problem, and the global nature of it, requires, at the least, it being addressed on a national level. One approach to this problem would be the incorporation of a solution into the immediate mandate of the United States Space Force (USSF). This mandate would need to direct the USSF to focus on the controlled clean-up of Earth’s orbit as a necessary precursor to any other space related endeavor. By way of analogy, if it were becoming increasingly dangerous to traverse the world’s oceans, and the US needed to utilize them for necessary civilian and military systems, then the US Navy’s immediate concern would be to return the oceans to a state of safe use for the US and its allies. The USSF ought to be no different. Allaying an obvious objection, it is entirely plausible that the costs, fiscal and otherwise, of this clean-up can be addressed in other areas of foreign relations, and might even result in a greater benefit than a cooperative defrayment of costs. This unilateral solution, however, is an imperfect one. A more ideal solution would be to subsume the responsibility of space to the United Nations, and empower them to do it. This would mean that an international organization would have authority over individual nations’ uses of space. Among the several implications, this would be a significant step toward a Kantian notion of perpetual peace, in the long term, and, in the short term, a limited guarantee of the safe and reliable use of space for all nations capable of utilizing it. The immediate result would be akin to governance over a natural resource by a scrupulously neutral authority.

Space Sciences panel was attended by moderator and 4 speakers who represented all segments covered by the conference: Academia, Industry and Societies. Various topics were discussed, such as: Space science in Serbia and in the region, Experiences in international projects and examples of cooperation, Connection between science, industry and society and the future of space sciences in Serbia.

The present paper is aimed to provide some basic requirements for a new philosophic paradigm, called "Space Age Philosophy". The paper is composed by 3 sections:

During the second half of the twentieth century, expensive observatories are being erected at La Silla (Chile), Mauna Kea (Hawai), Las Palmas (Canary Island), and Calar Alto (Spain), to name a view. In 1990, at the beginning of The Decade of Discovery in Astronomy and Astrophysics (Bahcall [2]), the UN/ESA Workshops on Basic Space Science initiated the establishment of small astronomical telescope facilities, among them many particularly sup-The annual UN/ESA Workshops continue to pursue an agenda to network these small observatory facilities through similar research and education programmes and at the same time encourage the incorporation of cultural elements predominant in the respective cultures. Cross-cultural integration and multilingual scientific cooperation may well be a dominant theme in the new millennium (Pyenson [20]). This trend is supported by the notion that astronomy has deep roots in virtually every human culture, that it helps to understand hu-manity's place in...