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The essential role of human spaceflight
Space Policy, 2013Abstract The question is: should the United States and nations at large pursue a human spaceflight program (and if so, why)? I offer an unwavering positive answer to this question, and state the reasons for it while considering the broad challenges and benefits of (human) spaceflight.
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NASA's Quest for Human Spaceflight Popular Appeal*
, 2017Objective Analyze NASA's efforts to “sell†both its mission and its successes from its origins in 1958 to the present. Methods Use public opinion polling and qualitative sources to establish change over time.
R. Launius
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Space Travel: Risk, Ethics, and Governance in Commercial Human Spaceflight
, 2016Human spaceflight presents new challenges for traditional approaches to risk assessment. From the onset human, spaceflight has been recognized as an inherently dangerous activity. Consequently, U.S.
Sara M. Langston
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The Future of Human Spaceflight in Japan
2002The development of a large rocket plays a significant role in Japan’s policy of space development and utilization. Therefore when the H-II rocket, developed using indigenous technology and launched successfully on its first five flights, failed on the next two consecutive flights the entire space program was seriously impacted.
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Escaping Earth: Human Spaceflight as Religion
Astropolitics, 2011*UCH attention has been given to the influence of the Cold War in explaining the United States‘ embarkation in the difficult task of exploring space with humans. The commitment to human space exploration, begun at the height of the Cold War and gaining ever greater credence through the race to the Moon along with its slow decline in the last 40 years ...
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‘The ethics of human enhancement for spaceflight'
In this presentation I examine the ethical reasons for and against enhancing human beings for spaceflight. I consider the supposed distinction between treatment and enhancement and argue that this much more difficult to maintain in modifying people for space environments than it is in the terrestrial context, but that ultimately modifications for spaceopenaire +1 more source
Chapter 4 Hormonal Changes in Humans During Spaceflight
1999Readers of this review may feel that there is much more that we do not know about space endocrinology than what we know. Several reasons for this state of affairs have been given: 1. the complexity of the field of endocrinology with its still increasing number of known hormones, releasing factors and precursors, and of the interactions between them ...
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SpaceX to launch astronauts — and a new era of private human spaceflight
Nature, 2020A. Witze
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