April 2024
Terraformal dreaming
... us to leave the rocks alone. This article is based on an extract from Astrotopia: The Dangerous Religion of the Corporate Space Race by Mary-Jane Rubenstein and published by The University of Chicago Press. It is reprinted with permision and all...
08 January 2023
Space Ethics
... practical in wanting to provide a toolkit for the discussion and understanding of ethics in general and space ethics in particular. Thus, we find suggested approaches to ethics, ethical concepts and principles, and tools with which to analyse the...
05 November 2015
Colonizing Mars – the legal way
... sovereign claims by the non-appropriation principle [in the Outer Space Treaty of 1967] could lead to future conflict.” How ...for a new regulatory framework concerning New Space, as well as adoption of a new space ethics as far as the environment is ...
28 October 2015
Catalina Sky Survey spots object WT1190F – set to return to Earth on November 13
... the Indian Ocean. As ROOM author Christopher J. Newman argued earlier this year, a new space ethics today is essential for assigning responsibility when it comes to dealing with space debris. WT1190F serves as a good illustration to the reason why...
October 2024
Space industry trajectory under the spotlight of cultural anthropology
... history to the present day. I’ve resurrected often unacknowledged Apollo-era protests and dissent, which are reflective of space ethics and protests that circulate in social media today. I have, from there, revisited historic moments, such as the...
