Icarus' Second Chance Jacques Arnould

• Auteur : Jacques Arnould
• Editeur : Springer-Verlag Kg
• Langue : Anglais
• Parution : 01/07/2011
• Format : Moyen, de 350g à 1kg
• Nombre de pages : 250
• Dimensions : 24.5 x 16.4 x 1.8

Résumé
2011: fifty years separate us from the flight of Yuri Gagarine. Fifty years of extraordinary successes, with the kind of apotheosis represented by the first man on the moon; fifty years also of bitter failures, even tragic when they involved the deaths of human beings; finally, fifty years during which space largely contributed to the scientific and technical, political and economic, cultural and social transformation of humanity. This is a critical analysis of the decisions and the actions which constituted and constitute still the field of astronautic activities, to analyze this field's strategies and choices, their consequences on the natural environment and on humans, in short to work out and apply an ethical investigation. This work is the fruit of research carried out by the French Centre national d'etudes spatiales during the ten last years, in collaboration with many organziaton, astronautical or not: ESA, NASA and especially ESPI.

Biographie
Dr. Jacques Arnould, Centre National d'Etudes Spatiales, Paris, France

Sommaire
Is the sky open to us?.- A brief history of space ethics.- Icarus.- Cloud riders.- The spaceship earth.- A threatening sky.- The greater earth.- Exploration.- Invaders.- The place of humans