Ethical considerations for the age of non-governmental space exploration

Allen Seylani, Aman Singh Galsinh, Alexia Tasoula, Anu R I, Andrea Camera, Jean Calleja-Agius, Joseph Borg, Chirag Goel, JangKeun Kim, Kevin B. Clark, Saswati Das, Shehbeel Arif, Michael Boerrigter, Caroline Coffey, Nathaniel Szewczyk, Christopher E. Mason, Maria Manoli, Fathi Karouia, Hansjörg Schwertz (), Afshin Beheshti () and Dana Tulodziecki ()
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Allen Seylani: University of California, Riverside. 92521 Botanical Garden Dr
Aman Singh Galsinh: University of Aberdeen
Alexia Tasoula: FH Technikum
Anu R I: MVR Cancer Centre and Research Institute
Andrea Camera: University of Oslo
Jean Calleja-Agius: University of Malta
Joseph Borg: University of Malta
Chirag Goel: Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine
JangKeun Kim: Weill Cornell Medicine
Kevin B. Clark: Cures Within Reach
Saswati Das: Atal Bihari Vajpayee Institute of Medical Sciences
Shehbeel Arif: Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia
Michael Boerrigter: Deep Space Biology
Caroline Coffey: Ohio University
Nathaniel Szewczyk: Ohio University
Christopher E. Mason: Weill Cornell Medicine
Maria Manoli: University of Aberdeen
Fathi Karouia: Exobiology Branch, NASA Ames Research Center
Hansjörg Schwertz: Molecular Medicine Program at the University of Utah
Afshin Beheshti: Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard
Dana Tulodziecki: Purdue University

Nature Communications, 2024, vol. 15, issue 1, 1-9

Abstract: Abstract Mounting ambitions and capabilities for public and private, non-government sector crewed space exploration bring with them an increasingly diverse set of space travelers, raising new and nontrivial ethical, legal, and medical policy and practice concerns which are still relatively underexplored. In this piece, we lay out several pressing issues related to ethical considerations for selecting space travelers and conducting human subject research on them, especially in the context of non-governmental and commercial/private space operations.

Date: 2024
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