Coming back from Space? Fill out your Declaration please!

[spuwho]

Many people have been asking what happens for those who travel through space? Is it considered immigration? What about Virgin Galactic?

There is precedence for this question.

From Savvystews.com



Just before your flight lands back in your home country from traveling abroad you're usually asking a flight attendant for a pen to fill out that slew of annoying forms and documents for customs and immigration.

But, can you believe that Astronauts returning to the United States from NASA missions have to fill one out too? Imagine listing your departure city as "The Moon."

The National Airline Policy's Facebook page just posted a photo of the document which was processed in Honolulu, HI after Apollo 11 and signed by the crew. Airline crew members will recognize this as the crew member general declaration form, the crewmember version of the US Customs Forms. It's an interesting read. Check it out.

[JayBird]

Interesting find. I would think that before International Space Stations and joint operation space missions that the NASA Shuttle would've been considered an extension of the sovereign nation. So technically, for those who perished in or on return from space, died out of country. Interesting.