Andrew G Haley 1 , 2 )



President and cheif Counsel of American Rocket society and founder of "Metalaw"

Prior to World War II, Andrew Haley was head of the Federal Communications Commission.

In 1942, Haley, along with Theodore von Karman founded Aerojet Engineering Corp (later Aerojet General) which designed and developed Rocket-Assisted and Jet-Assisted Take-Off units for aircraft during World War II. He also served as its first president and managing director.

Haley was vice-president of the International Astronautical Federation (IAF) from 1951 to 1953, and was its president from 1958 to 1959.

For most of the 1950's Andrew Haley was director, president, and board chairman of the American Rocket Society.

In 1956 he helped found the field of space law and created the field of "metalaw." This term, which he coined at The International Astronautical Congress that year, refers to the study and development of a workable system of laws applicable to all our relations with alien intelligences.

Haley believed mankind should not apply the "Golden Rule" in any dealings with extra-terrestrials. Haley felt that doing unto another, alien being, as you would have him do unto you might prove to be deadly to him. He suggested the correct form of the Golden Rule should be "Do unto others as they would have you do unto them." This is the basis for all metalaw (Space Law).

in 1956 Aurther C Clarke wrote a letter to Haley. In it, he mentions the article in Wireless world and then expands on his earlier writings by correctly predicting the future development of both satellite television and GPS click  here  for the letter1 , )

The geostationary orbit is now sometimes known as the Clarke Orbit or the Clarke Belt in his honour.
Although there is also mention of earlier ideas from others about communication satellites but they did name the orbit belt after him.

in 1956 Aurther C Clarke was the first to describe Geostationary Satellites  in a letter to the editor of Wireless World Magazine in February 1945 and  further elaborated on this concept in a paper titled Extra-Terrestrial Relays – Can Rocket Stations Give Worldwide Radio Coverage?, published in Wireless World in October 1945 which can be found below

In 1963 he refined his ideas in an influential article entitled "Space Law and Government."

Both the American Rocket Society and the American Bar Association honored Haley for his work.

He died in 1966. He is remembered through the Haley Space Flight Award, presented every other year by the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics "for outstanding contributions by an astronaut or test personnel to the advancement of the art, science or technology of astronautics." The award was originally established in 1954 as the Haley Astronautics Award.