Icarus' Second Chance : The Basis and Perspectives of Space Ethics (Studies in Space Policy) （2011）

Arnould, Jacques

Springer Verlag GmbH（2013/11発売）

• 製本 Paperback:紙装版/ペーパーバック版／ページ数 201 p.
• 言語 ENG
• 商品コード 9783709111185
• DDC分類 174.96294

Full Description

2011: fifty years separate us from the flight of Yuri Gagarin. Fifty years of extraordinary successes, with the kind of apotheosis represented by the first man on the moon; fifty years also of bitter failures, even tragic when they involved the deaths of human beings; finally, fifty years during which space largely contributed to the scientific and technical, political and economic, cultural and social transformation of humanity. This is a critical analysis of the decisions and the actions which constituted and constitute still the field of astronautic activities, to analyse this field's strategies and choices, their consequences on the natural environment and on humans, in short to work out and apply an ethical investigation. This work is the fruit of research carried out by the French Centre National d'Etudes Spatiales (CNES) over the past ten years, in collaboration with many organisations, astronautical or not: ESA, NASA and especially ESPI.

Contents

Is the sky open to us?.- A brief history of space ethics.- Icarus.- Cloud riders.- The spaceship earth.- A threatening sky.- The greater earth.- Exploration.- Invaders.- The place of humans.