The Human Factor in a Mission to Mars An Interdisciplinary Approach /

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Szocik, Konrad (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2019.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2019.
• Series: Space and Society,
• Subjects: Space sciences.; Aerospace engineering.; Astronautics.; Research-Moral and ethical aspects.; Technology-Sociological aspects.; Personality.; Social psychology.; Science-Social aspects.; Space Sciences (including Extraterrestrial Physics, Space Exploration and Astronautics).; Aerospace Technology and Astronautics.; Research Ethics.; Science and Technology Studies.; Personality and Social Psychology.; Societal Aspects of Physics, Outreach and Education.

A manned mission to Mars is faced with challenges and topics that may not be obvious but of great importance and challenging for such a mission. This is the first book that collects contributions from scholars in various fields, from astronomy and medicine, to theology and philosophy, addressing suc...

Table of Contents:

• Martian Environmental Psychology: The Choice Architecture of a Mars Mission and Colony
• One Mars: The Ethics of Settlement in a Unique Place
• Can Deep Altruism Sustain Space Settlement?
• Interplanetary Sustainability: Mars as a Means of a Long-term Sustainable Development of Humankind in the Solar System
• Mars, the Next Frontier? A Public Ethical Interrogation
• Ethics on an Uninhabited Planet
• Mars and Beyond: The Feasibility of Living in the Solar System
• Program Services Planning for a Mars Hardship Post; Reflections on the Need for Social, Psychological, and Spiritual Services
• Identifying and Monitoring the Complex System-of-Systems that Constitutes Human Habitation of Mars
• Envisioning the Martian Colonies
• Religion for a Spatial Colony: Posing the Right Questions
• Human Place in Outer Space: Should We and Can We Build a Human Colony on Mars? Skeptical Remarks
• Mars and the New Colonies: A Declaration of Independence? Interplanetary Fiduciary Relationships and a self-sustaining Off-Planet Economy
• Science and Ethics in the Exploration of Mars.