Humans in Outer Space - Interdisciplinary Perspectives -

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Résumé :

Prefaces

Frank De Winne, Milena Zic-Fuchs and Jean-Paul Swings

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Introduction: from odysseys to perspectives - towards new interdisciplinary approaches to humans in outer space.

Ulrike Landfester, Nina-Louisa Remuss, Kai-Uwe Schrogl and Jean-Claude Worms

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CHAPTER 1 Politics and society

1.1 The political context for human space exploration.

Kai-Uwe Schrogl

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1.2 Who will own outer space? Governance over space resources in the age of human space exploration.

Kurt Mills

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1.3 Managing space, organising the sublime.

Martin Parker

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1.4 Astronauts: from envoys of mankind to combatants.

Nina-Louisa Remuss

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1.5 Space inclusiveness and empowerment, or how The Frontier becomes a mirror.

Adrian Belu

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1.6 A school curriculum for the children of space settlers.

Alan Britton

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1.7 Ethics and extraterrestrial life.

Charles Cockell

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1.8 Encounters among the stars - exosociological considerations.

Michael T. Schetsche

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CHAPTER 2 History and religion

2.1 Astrocognition: Prolegomena to a future cognitive history of exploration.

David Dun?r

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2.2 Looking back to Earth.

S. J. Gustav Sch?rghofer

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2.3 Alien life: Remarks on the exobiological perspective in recent terrestrial biology.

Thomas Brandstetter

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CHAPTER 3 Culture and psychology

3.1 Laokoon in Outer Space? Towards a transformative hermeneutics of Art.

Ulrike Landfester

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3.2 Music and the outer space - the means of universal communication or a form of art?

Anna G. Piotrowska

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3.3 From space suits to space couture: a new aesthetic.

Mark Timmins

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3.4 Looking back, looking forward and aiming higher: next generation visions on humans in outer space.

Agnieszka Lukaszczyk, Bejal Thakoreand Juergen Schlutz

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3.5 Humans in outer space: Existential fulfillment or frustration? Existential, psychological, social and ethical issues for crew on a long-term space mission beyond Earth orbit.

Berna van Baarsen

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CHAPTER 4 Annex

4.1 Useful web-addresses related to human exploration

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4.2 The Vienna Vision on Humans in Outer Space

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4.3 Summary Report of the Review of U.S. Human Space Flight Plans Committee

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4.4 The Global Exploration Strategy Framework:The Framework for Coordination

(Executive Summary, May 2007)

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4.5 Overview of Europe?s contribution to the ISS

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4.6 SETI.s Declaration of Principles Concerning Activities Following the Detection of Extraterrestrial Intelligence

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4.7 Extract from Mars Life by BenBova

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4.8 Extract from The Dream - or posthumous work on lunar astronomy by Ludwig Kepler

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4.9 Religion and Human Space Flight

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4.10 An historian.s viewpoint - Historical approaches to human space flight and the Humans in Outer Space project.

Luca Codignola

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4.11 The Mars 500 isolation experiment

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About the authors

List of acronyms

List of figures and tables

Acknowledgements