Icarus’ Second Chance The Basis and Perspectives of Space Ethics /

• Main Author: Arnould, Jacques (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Vienna : Springer Vienna : Imprint: Springer, 2011.
• Series: Studies in Space Policy, 6
• Subjects: Engineering.; Aerospace engineering.; Astronautics.; Economic policy.; Aerospace Technology and Astronautics.; R & D/Technology Policy.

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 whi...

Table of 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.