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... 2. For the purposes of this Agreement reference to the moon shall include orbits around
or other trajectories to or around it. ...
... 4. The establishment of military bases, installations and fortifications, the testing
of any type of weapons and the conduct of military man uvres on the moon shall be
forbidden. The use of military personnel for scientific research or for any other peaceful
purposes shall not be prohibited. The use of any equipment or facility necessary for
peaceful exploration and use of the moon shall also not be prohibited. ...
... 1. States Parties shall inform the Secretary-General of the United Nations as well as
the public and the international scientific community, to the greatest extent feasible and
practicable, of their activities concerned with the exploration and use of the moon.
Information on the time, purposes, locations, orbital parameters and duration shall be
given in respect of each mission to the moon as soon as possible after launching, while
information on the results of each mission, including scientific results, shall be
furnished upon completion of the mission. In the case of a mission lasting more than sixty
days, information on conduct of the mission, including any scientific results, shall be
given periodically, at thirty-day intervals. For missions lasting more than six months,
only significant additions to such information need be reported thereafter. ...
... 2. In carrying out scientific investigations and in furtherance of the provisions of
this Agreement, the States Parties shall have the right to collect on and remove from the
moon samples of its mineral and other substances. Such samples shall remain at the
disposal of those States Parties which caused them to be collected and may be used by them
for scientific purposes. States Parties shall have regard to the desirability of making a
portion of such samples available to other interested States Parties and the international
scientific community for scientific investigation. States Parties may in the course of
scientific investigations also use mineral and other substances of the moon in quantities
appropriate for the support of their missions. ...
... 2. States Parties shall inform the Secretary-General of the United Nations of the
measures being adopted by them in accordance with paragraph 1 of this article and shall
also, to the maximum extent feasible, notify him in advance of all placements by them of
radio-active materials on the moon and of the purposes of such placements. ...
... 2. For these purposes States Parties may, in particular: ...
... 1. States Parties may establish manned and unmanned stations on the moon. A State Party
establishing a station shall use only that area which is required for the needs of the
station and shall immediately inform the Secretary-General of the United Nations of the
location and purposes of that station. Subsequently, at annual intervals that State shall
likewise inform the Secretary-General whether the station continues in use and whether its
purposes have changed. ...
... 1. States Parties may establish manned and unmanned stations on the moon. A State Party
establishing a station shall use only that area which is required for the needs of the
station and shall immediately inform the Secretary-General of the United Nations of the
location and purposes of that station. Subsequently, at annual intervals that State shall
likewise inform the Secretary-General whether the station continues in use and whether its
purposes have changed. ...
... 1. States Parties shall adopt all practicable measures to safeguard the life and health
of persons on the moon. For this purpose they shall regard any person on the moon as an
astronaut within the meaning of article V of the Treaty on Principles Governing the
Activities of States in the Exploration and Use of Outer Space, including the Moon and
Other Celestial Bodies and as part of the personnel of a spacecraft within the meaning of
the Agreement on the Rescue of Astronauts, the Return of Astronauts and the Return of
Objects Launched into Outer Space. ...
... 8. All the activities with respect to the natural resources of the moon shall be
carried out in a manner compatible with the purposes specified in paragraph 7 of this
article and the provisions of article 6, paragraph 2, of this Agreement. ...