Codignola, Luca
Humans in Outer Space — Interdisciplinary Odysseys
Chapter 1. Setting The Scene
1. Summary
Luca Codignola
2. Micro-organisms and extraterrestrial travel
Alfred W. Crosby
3. Future encounters: learning from the past?
Luca Codignola
4. Are we alone? Searching for life in the universe and its creation
Gerhard Haerendel
5. What’s the story, mother? Some thoughts on Science Fiction Film and Space Travel
Thomas Ballhausen
6. Aiming ahead: next generation visions for the next 50 years in space
Agnieszka Lukaszczyk
Chapter 2. Can We Compare?
7. Summary
Monique Donzel
8.
James Muldoon
9. Celestial bodies: Lucy in the sky
Gísli Pálsson
10. Why we had better drop analogies when discussing the role of humans in space
Sven Grahn
Chapter 3. ’Spatiality’ — Space As A Source of Inspiration
11. Summary
Olivier Francis
12. Missing the impossible: how we talk and write about space
Ulrike Landfester
13. Towards a new inspiring era of collaborative space exploration
Nicolas Peter
Chapter 4. First Odyssey: Humans in Earth Orbit: what Effect does It Have?
14. Summary
Marcel Egli
15. With the eyes of an astronaut
Claude Nicollier
16. Human spaceflight, technology development and innovation
Richard Tremayne-Smith
17. Human—machine cooperation in space environments
Gabriella Cortellessa, Amedeo Cesta, Angelo Oddi
18. Space law in the age of the International Space Station
Frans G. Dunk
Chapter 5. Second Odyssey: Humans in Space Exploration: What Effects Will It Have?
19. Summary
Jean-Pierre Swings
20. Humans — more than the better robots for exploration?
Wolfgang Baumjohann
21. Humans leaving the Earth — a philosopher’s view
Jacques Arnould
22. Human spaceflight as a matter of culture and national vision
Stephan Lingner
23. The need of a legal framework for space exploration
Ulrike M. Bohlmann
Chapter 6. Third Odyssey: Humans Migrating the Earth: How Will It Affect Human Thought?
24. Summary
Jean-Claude Worms
25. Mars as a place to live? Past, present and future
Gerda Horneck
26. Philosophical and religious implications of extraterrestrial intelligent life
Paolo Musso
27. ET culture
Debbora Battaglia
Chapter 7. The Vienna Vision on Humans in Outer Space
28. Humans in Outer Space
Keywords: Engineering, Aerospace Technology and Astronautics, Political Science
- Author(s)
- Codignola, Luca
- Schrogl, Kai-Uwe
- Lukaszczyk, Agnieszka
- Peter, Nicolas
- Publisher
- Springer
- Publication year
- 2009
- Language
- en
- Edition
- 1
- Series
- Studies in Space Policy
- Page amount
- 272 pages
- Category
- Technology, Energy, Traffic
- Format
- Ebook
- eISBN (PDF)
- 9783211874653