Mars Ethical Issues

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1. Discuss the issues associated with a one‐way human Mars Mission. (a) How would you

design this mission? (b) How would you select the crew? (c) What are the ethical issues?

(d) How will you pay for this? And (e) What are the legal and policy issues? (Each is worth 5

points)

This paper will look at a one way mission to Mars. We will discuss the design of the mission, how the selection of the crew will be conducted, what ethical issues will arise from this, how this would be funded and the various legal and policy issues will also be analysed.

The selection of the crew will be an intense process. First of all, we will take applications; people who are actually willing to go on a one way trip to Mars. From here, we will filter out …show more content…

But we, as humans, were designed to explore. its what got us to this point in the first place. Tsiokolvski CRadle. Turtles leaving their young. we are meant to spread our wings and fly, pioneers columbus.

How to pay - a collaboration between countries. Private fiunding and donations would also b set up, but we would get our word across to the world so we get funding. while there is conflict on earth, when we are in outer space, we are representing one entity; earth. a collobortaion between countries would be fantastic.

Legal and policy issues - freedom of outer space act and
We will aldo have to go through the non-appropriation of outer space law. Go through copuos.

We will provide various rationales and reasons why we are exploring mars will be presented. We will be increading scientific knowlegde, and the continued survival of the human race. A route for spoace tourism will also be shown, enhancing their scope for space tourism. Jobs will be created for all the machinery needed to run this mission, so the economic benefits are evident, even if it does cost a lot. We will be inspiring a generation, that you can go and explore and feats that seem impossible, can be accomplised, as it has time and again by humans. Spill over technology into other other …show more content…

Iss prime example of collaboration. Lecture 39

Design of the mission - check green book

why go when people are starving on earth? well, the spill over etchnologies that will arise form this successful mission will benefit all of humanity. breast cancer screening

space agencies are emerging around the work, with the UK, Canadian and Brazilian Space Agencies, and JAXA just to name a few. appealing to Virgin and Space X, as well as NASA and ESA. Not only will these companies benefit from our tecnologies and new knowledge, we will gain good relations and share costs.

a prime example of international collboration is the story of the ISS; a partnership between 16 proud nations to conduct experiements in micro gravity. Begining in 1984, and occupying the station since 1998, the ISS is a prime example of how humanity came together for science, wigth multiple spin-off’s being felt in other sectors throughout the world.

gettong help from the international space exploration group will also be key, a collaboration of 14 space agencies with the mission to coordinating space

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