Library Services | Technical University of Kenya

Your cart is empty.
Normal view MARC view ISBD view

Icarus’ Second Chance [electronic resource] : The Basis and Perspectives of Space Ethics / by Jacques Arnould.

By: Arnould, Jacques [author.].
Contributor(s): SpringerLink (Online service).
Material type: materialTypeLabelBookSeries: Studies in Space Policy: 6Publisher: Vienna : Springer Vienna : Imprint: Springer, 2011Description: XIII, 201 p. online resource.Content type: text Media type: computer Carrier type: online resourceISBN: 9783709107126.Subject(s): Engineering | Astronautics | Economics | Engineering | Aerospace Technology and Astronautics | R & D/Technology PolicyDDC classification: 629.1 Online resources: Click here to access online
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.
In: Springer eBooksSummary: 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.
Tags from this library: No tags from this library for this title. Log in to add tags.
No physical items for this record

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.

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.

There are no comments for this item.

Log in to your account to post a comment.

2017 | The Technical University of Kenya Library | +254(020) 2219929, 3341639, 3343672 | library@tukenya.ac.ke | Haile Selassie Avenue