Human Enhancements for Space Missions (eBook)

Lunar, Martian, and Future Missions to the Outer Planets

Konrad Szocik (Herausgeber)

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2020 | 1st ed. 2020
XIV, 291 Seiten
Springer International Publishing (Verlag)
978-3-030-42036-9 (ISBN)

Infos

This book presents a collection of chapters, which address various contexts and challenges of the idea of human enhancement for the purposes of human space missions. The authors discuss pros and cons of mostly biological enhancement of human astronauts operating in hostile space environments, but also ethical and theological aspects are addressed. In contrast to the idea and program of human enhancement on Earth, human enhancement in space is considered a serious and necessary option. This book aims at scholars in the following fields: ethics and philosophy, space policy, public policy, as well as biologists and psychologists.

Konrad Szocik (born 1985 in ?ary, Poland) received his PhD in Philosophy (Faculty of Philosophy, Jagiellonian University in Cracow, Poland). Currently, he is assistant professor at the University of Information Technology and Management in Rzeszów, and editor of the 'Studia Humana' journal. Research areas include space philosophy and space ethics (mainly the idea of human enhancement for space), and cognitive and evolutionary study of religion.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 7.8.2020
• Reihe/Serie: Space and Society
• Reihe/Serie: Space and Society
• Zusatzinfo: XIV, 291 p. 15 illus., 13 illus. in color.
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Ethik
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Psychologie ► Persönlichkeitsstörungen
• Themenwelt: Studium ► 2. Studienabschnitt (Klinik) ► Humangenetik
• Themenwelt: Naturwissenschaften ► Physik / Astronomie ► Astronomie / Astrophysik
• Themenwelt: Technik ► Luft- / Raumfahrttechnik
• Schlagworte: human enhancement • Human space missions • Mission to Mars • research ethics • space environment • space policy • space program • Space radiation • Space settlement
• ISBN-10: 3-030-42036-1 / 3030420361
• ISBN-13: 978-3-030-42036-9 / 9783030420369