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Human Enhancements for Space Missions

Human Enhancements for Space Missions

Lunar, Martian, and Future Missions to the Outer Planets

by Konrad Szocik
Hardback
Publication Date: 08/08/2020

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Section I. Human Enhancements: Biological, Medical, and IT Perspectives.- Margaret Boone Rappaport and Christopher Corbally: Normalizing the Paradigm on Human Enhancements.- Martin Braddock: Challenges and Opportunities for Colonisation and Civilisation Build and the Potential for Human Enhancements.- Steven Abood: Crossing the Transhuman Rubicon: When do enhancements change our definition of human?.- Section II. Human Enhancements: Philosophical and Moral Perspectives.- Konrad Szocik and Chris Impey: Human enhancement and Mars settlement - biological necessity or science-fiction?.- Ziba Norman and Michael Reiss: Volitional Evolution: Does A Mission to Mars Alter the Balance in Favour of Enhancement?.- Koji Tachibana: Human enhancement in space and the value of survival.- Anthony Milligan: The Ethical Problems of Life Extension in Space.- Gonzalo Munévar: Science and Ethics in the Human-Enhanced Exploration of Mars.- Cameron Smith: Prediction and Prescription in Mars Settlement Studies.- Héctor Velázquez: Mission to Mars: Enhancing our concept of human home?.- Klara Anna Capova: Homo extremophilaeus. Terrestrial and extra-terrestrial stories of extreme survival and their relevance for manned mission to Mars.- Laura Benitez Valero: Spatial Colonization and xenointersections.- Raquel Cascales: Cyborgs and Cyborgism: The Present Human Enhancement as a Projection of the Future.- Rosa Fernandez, Urtasun: Myths of the Future in Mars.- Jacques Arnould: Promise of heaven. Space, human enhancement, and religion.- Luis Torró Ferrero: Some theological considerations about human enhancement in the missions to the outer planets.
ISBN:
9783030420352
9783030420352
Category:
Astrophysics
Format:
Hardback
Publication Date:
08-08-2020
Language:
English
Publisher:
Springer International Publishing AG
Country of origin:
Switzerland
Dimensions (mm):
235x155mm
Weight:
0.63kg

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