Ethical considerations for the age of non-governmental space exploration.
Where this comes from
- Record sourced from PubMed, PMID 38862473.
- Also identified by DOI 10.1038/s41467-023-44357-x and PMC identifier 11166968.
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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.
Medical subject headings
- Space Flight