Space Exploration
This note is about aspects of space exploration.
Relevant issues include ethics of resource extractions, waste, medicine and Astrobiology
Expansion
Ganser, Alexandra. “Astrofuturism.” In Critical Terms in Futures Studies, edited by Heike Paul, 35–43. Cham: Springer, 2019.
Wohlforth, Charles P., and Amanda R. Hendrix. Beyond Earth: Our Path to a New Home in the Planets. New York: Pantheon Books, 2016.
Criticism
Shammas, Victor L., and Tomas B. Holen. “One Giant Leap for Capitalistkind: Private Enterprise in Outer Space.” Palgrave Communications 5, no. 1 (2019): 1–9. https://doi.org/10/gpz9sz.
Space Biology
Gilles Clément and K. Slenzka, eds., Fundamentals of Space Biology: Research on Cells, Animals, and Plants in Space (El Segundo: Springer, 2006).
Medical Issues
A recent review of issues with useful literature:
Binod Prasad et al., ‘How the Space Environment Influences Organisms: An Astrobiological Perspective and Review’, International Journal of Astrobiology 20, no. 2 (2021): 159–77, https://doi.org/10/gpmjpm.
Gilles Clément, Fundamentals of Space Medicine, 2nd ed. (2000; repr., El Segundo: Springer, 2011).
Gilles Clément and Angelia P. Bukley, eds., Artificial Gravity (Hawthorne: Springer, 2007).
Nick Kanas, Humans in Space The Psychological Hurdles (Cham: Springer, 2015).
Mission Analysis and Design
James Richard Wertz and Wiley J. Larson, eds., Space Mission Analysis and Design, 3rd ed. (1999; repr., El Segundo: Kluwer, 2005).
Space as the Context for the Earth
Gilles Clément, The Planetary Garden: And Other Writings, trans. Sandra Morris (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2015). NB: This is a different Gilles Clément - a landscape architect - from the one who studies space medicine.
Resources
AIAA Aerospace Research Central a reserach repository with articles and video presentations.
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