| Title: | Commercial space exploration : [ethics, policy and governance] / |
| Authors: | Jai Galliott, Author |
| Material Type: | eBook |
| Publisher: | Surrey, England : Ashgate, 2015 |
| Series: | Emerging technologies, ethics and international affairs. |
| Size: | 1 online resource(xvi, 327 p.) |
| Bibliography note: | Includes bibliographical references |
| Languages: | English |
| Class number: | BJ1012 |
| Subjects: | Astronautics--Moral and ethical aspects ; Outer space--Civilian use ; Outer space--Ethics ; Space industrialization ; Space tourism |
| Description: | We must understand that with the possibility of commercial space travel on our horizon, it comes with a number of significant practical and moral challenges. This volume provides a comprehensive and unifying analysis concerning the rise of private space exploration, with a view toward developing policy that may influence real-world decision making |
| Contents note: | Cover; Contents; Notes on Contributors; 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 SolutionsPart 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 Space18 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; Index |
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