Humans in Outer Space — Interdisciplinary Perspectives

✍ Scribed by Kai-Uwe Schrogl (auth.), Ulrike Landfester, Nina-Louisa Remuss, Kai-Uwe Schrogl, Jean-Claude Worms (eds.)

• Publisher: Springer-Verlag Wien
• Year: 2011
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 360
• Series: Studies in Space Policy 5
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Following the first comprehensive transdisciplinary dialogue on humans in outer space which resulted in "Humans in Outer Space - Interdisciplinary Odysseys", the European Science Foundation (ESF), the European Space Agency (ESA), and the European Space Policy Institute (ESPI) have continued and deepened this transdisciplinary dialogue, which can now be found in Humans in Outer Space - Interdisciplinary Perspectives. Going further than regarding humans as better-than-robot tools for exploration, it investigates the human quest for odysseys beyond Earth's atmosphere and reflects on arising issues related to Europe's role among the States conducting human exploration. It provides perspectives related to governance, management of space exploration, space settlements, the role of astronauts in the future as well as related to the encounter of extraterrestrial life.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages i-xxvi
Front Matter....Pages 1-1
The political context for human space exploration....Pages 3-14
Who will own outer space? governance over space resources in the age of human space exploration....Pages 15-27
Managing space, organising the sublime....Pages 28-38
Astronauts: from envoys of mankind to combatants....Pages 39-56
Space inclusiveness and empowerment, or how the frontier becomes a mirror....Pages 57-64
A school curriculum for the children of space settlers....Pages 65-79
Ethics and extraterrestrial life....Pages 80-101
Encounters among the stars — exosociological considerations....Pages 102-114
Front Matter....Pages 115-115
Astrocognition: Prolegomena to a future cognitive history of exploration....Pages 117-140
Looking back to Earth....Pages 141-145
Alien life: remarks on the exobiological perspective in recent terrestrial biology....Pages 146-155
Front Matter....Pages 157-157
Laokoon in Outer Space? Towards a transformative hermeneutics of art....Pages 159-170
Music and the outer space — the Means of universal communication or a form of art?....Pages 171-182
From space suits to space couture: a new aesthetic....Pages 183-203
Looking back, looking forward and aiming higher: next generation visions on humans in outer space....Pages 204-221
Humans in outer space: Existential fulfilment or frustration? Existential, psychological, social and ethical issues for crew on a long-term space mission beyond Earth orbit....Pages 222-238
Front Matter....Pages 239-239
Useful web-addresses related to human exploration....Pages 241-241
The Vienna Vision on Humans in Outer Space....Pages 242-242
Summary Report of the Review of U.S. Human Space Flight Plans Committee....Pages 243-257
The Global Exploration Strategy Framework: The Framework for Coordination (Executive Summary, May 2007) 486 ....Pages 258-281
Front Matter....Pages 239-239
Overview of Europe’s contribution to the ISS 491 ....Pages 282-290
SETI’s Declaration of Principles Concerning Activities Following the Detection of Extraterrestrial Intelligence....Pages 291-293
Extract from “Mars Life” by Ben Bova....Pages 294-295
Extract from “The Dream — or posthumous work on lunar astronomy” by Ludwig Kepler 498 ....Pages 296-297
Religion and Human Space Flight....Pages 298-299
An historian’s viewpoint — Historical approaches to human space flight and the “Humans in Outer Space” project....Pages 300-305
The Mars 500 isolation experiment....Pages 306-308
Back Matter....Pages 309-333

✦ Subjects

Aerospace Technology and Astronautics; Political Science, general