Site Search. Wood_IAC_2009_Satellite_Programs. United Nations Committee on the Peaceful Uses of Outer Space: Members. United Nations Committee on the Peaceful Uses of Outer Space: Members In 1958, shortly after the launching of the first artifical satellite, Sputnik-1, the United Nations General Assembly established an ad hoc Committee on the Peaceful Uses of Outer Space ( GA resolution 1348 (XIII)).
The following year, a permanent Committee on the Peaceful Uses of Outer Space was established by the General Assembly ( resolution 1472 (XIV)). In 1959, the Committee had 24 members. Since then it has grown to 74 members - one of the largest Committees in the United Nations.