Nature Communications (Jun 2024)
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,
- Dana Tulodziecki
Affiliations
- Allen Seylani
- School of Medicine, University of California, Riverside. 92521 Botanical Garden Dr
- Aman Singh Galsinh
- School of Medicine, Medical Sciences and Nutrition, University of Aberdeen
- Alexia Tasoula
- Department of Life Science Engineering, FH Technikum
- Anu R I
- Department of Cancer Biology and Therapeutics, MVR Cancer Centre and Research Institute
- Andrea Camera
- Department of Molecular Medicine, Institute of Basic Medical Sciences, University of Oslo
- Jean Calleja-Agius
- Department of Anatomy, Faculty of Medicine and Surgery, University of Malta
- Joseph Borg
- Department of Applied Biomedical Science, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Malta
- Chirag Goel
- Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine
- JangKeun Kim
- Department of Physiology & Biophysics, Weill Cornell Medicine
- Kevin B. Clark
- Cures Within Reach
- Saswati Das
- Department of Biochemistry, Atal Bihari Vajpayee Institute of Medical Sciences
- Shehbeel Arif
- Center for Data-Driven Discovery in Biomedicine, Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia
- Michael Boerrigter
- Deep Space Biology
- Caroline Coffey
- Heritage College of Osteopathic Medicine, Ohio University
- Nathaniel Szewczyk
- Heritage College of Osteopathic Medicine, Ohio University
- Christopher E. Mason
- Department of Physiology & Biophysics, Weill Cornell Medicine
- Maria Manoli
- School of Law, University of Aberdeen
- Fathi Karouia
- Blue Marble Space Institute for Science, Exobiology Branch, NASA Ames Research Center
- Hansjörg Schwertz
- Molecular Medicine Program at the University of Utah
- Afshin Beheshti
- Stanley Center for Psychiatric Research, Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard
- Dana Tulodziecki
- Department of Philosophy, Purdue University
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-023-44357-x
- Journal volume & issue
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Vol. 15,
no. 1
pp. 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.
