Commercial Space Exploration Ethics Policy and Governance 1st Edition by Jai Galliott ISBN 1472436121 9781472436122
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ISBN 10: 1472436121
ISBN 13: 9781472436122
Author: Jai Galliott
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.
Commercial Space Exploration Ethics Policy and Governance 1st Table of contents:
1 Introduction
PART I SPACE EXPLORATION: CONCEPTS AND JUSTIFICATIONS
2 The Moral Philosophy of Space Travel: A Historical Review
3 The Permissibility of First Contact
4 How Space Travel Will Save the World: An Anthropocentric View of Sustainability
5 Who is Afraid of ‘The Dark’? Familiarising the Unknown
PART II PUBLIC MEETS PRIVATE: AN EMERGING SPACE ENTERPRISE
6 Space Exploration: An Alliance Between Public and Private
7 Heaven Can’t Wait: A Critique of Current Planetary Defence Policy
8 Advertising in Space: Sales at the Outer Limits
9 Space Tourism: Risks and Solutions
PART III ASTEROID MINING AND THE SPACE ENVIRONMENT
10 Asteroid Mining, Integrity and Containment
11 Three Ethical Perspectives on Asteroid Mining
12 Exploring the Heavens and the Heritage of Mankind
13 Terraforming, Vandalism and Virtue Ethics
PART IV SPACE WEAPONS
14 Seizing the High Ground? The Dubious Utility of Space Weapons
15 Militarising Space: Weapons in Orbit
16 Artificial Intelligence and Space Robotics: Questions of Responsibility
17 Space Medicine: The Bioethical and Legal Implications for Commercial Human Spaceflight
PART V BIOETHICS FOR OUTER SPACE
18 Enhancing Astronauts: The Ethical, Legal and Social Implications
19 Vulnerable Cargo: The Sacrifice of Animal Astronauts
PART VI RESPONSIBILITY, GOVERNANCE AND OTHER CONCERNS
20 The Independent Entrepreneur and the Terraforming of Mars
21 A Place in Space: Marking Emptiness
22 Outsourcing Space
23 Forty Hectares and an MU: Towards a Colonisation Ethic