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Commercial Space Exploration: Ethics, Policy and Governance

Author: Jai Galliott
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 9781472436115
Published In: August 2015
Format: Hardback
Jurisdiction: U.K. ? Disclaimer:
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Not since man set foot on the moon over four decades ago has there been such passion and excitement about space exploration. This enthusiasm and eagerness has been spurred on by the fact that for the first time since the very beginning of the space age, space travel is no longer limited to an elite group of highly trained and well-disciplined military officers and test pilots. Instead, we must understand that the possibility of commercial space travel is already on our horizon and that it comes with a number of significant practical and moral challenges. Our level of scientific development and ability to influence international affairs and policy confers upon us an obligation to study the ethical, legal and social considerations associated with space exploration and understanding the potential consequences from the beginning is critical.

This volume provides the first comprehensive and unifying analysis concerning the rise of private space exploration, with a view toward developing policy that may influence real-world decision making. The plethora of questions demanding serious attention - privatisation and commercialisation, the impact on the environment, health futures, risk assessment, responsibility and governance - are directly addressed in this scholarly work.

Introduction, Jai Galliott.

Part I Space Exploration: Concepts and Justifications: The moral philosophy of space travel: a historical review, Nicholas Campion

The permissibility of first contact, Brent Franklin

How space travel will save the world: an anthropocentric view of sustainability, Elizabeth Kanon

Who is afraid of 'the dark'? Familiarising the unknown, Zumre Gizem Yilmaz.

Part II Public Meets Private: An Emerging Space Enterprise: Space exploration: an alliance between public and private, Jacques Arnould

Heaven can't wait: a critique of current planetary defence policy, Joel Marks

Advertising in space: sales at the outer limits, Zeldine O'Brien

Space tourism: risks and solutions, Angie Bukley, Robert Frize and Veronica La Regina.

Part III Asteroid Mining and the Space Environment: Asteroid mining, integrity and containment, Tony Milligan

Three ethical perspectives on asteroid mining, Daniel Pilchman

Exploring the heavens and the heritage of mankind, Robert Seddon

Terraforming, vandalism and virtue ethics, Robert Sparrow.

Part IV Space Weapons: Seizing the high ground? The dubious utility of space weapons, Armin Krishnan

Militarising space: weapons in orbit, Matthew Beard

Artificial intelligence and space robotics: questions of responsibility, Jai Galliott.

Part V Bioethics for Outer Space: Space medicine: the bioethical and legal implications for commercial human spaceflight, Sara Langston

Enhancing astronauts: the ethical, legal and social implications, Keith Abney and Patrick Lin

Vulnerable cargo: the sacrifice of animal astronauts, Jane Johnson.

Part VI Responsibility, Governance and Other Concerns: The independent entrepreneur and the terraforming of Mars, Chris Pak

A place in space: marking emptiness, Meera Baindur

Outsourcing space, Christopher Ketcham and Jai Galliott

Forty hectares and an MU: towards a colonisation ethic, Christopher Ketcham.

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