Research Catalog

Title

Health standards for long duration and exploration spaceflight : ethics principles, responsibilities, and decision framework / Committee on Ethics Principles and Guidelines for Health Standards for Long Duration and Exploration Spaceflights, Board on Health Sciences Policy ; Jeffrey Kahn, Catharyn T. Liverman, and Margaret A. McCoy, editors ; Institute of Medicine of the National Academies.

Author

Committee on Ethics Principles and Guidelines for Health Standards for Long Duration and Exploration Spaceflights, author. http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut

Publication

Washington, D.C. : National Academies Press, 2014.

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Additional Authors

• Kahn, Jeffrey P.
• Liverman, Catharyn T.
• McCoy, Margaret A.
• Institute of Medicine (U.S.). Board on Health Sciences Policy, author. http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut

Description

xiii, 172 pages; 23 cm

Summary

"Since its inception, the U.S. human spaceflight program has grown from launching a single man into orbit to an ongoing space presence involving numerous crewmembers. As the U.S. space program evolves, propelled in part by increasing international and commercial collaborations, long duration or exploration spaceflights - such as extended stays on the International Space Station or missions to Mars - become more realistic. These types of missions will likely expose crews to levels of known risk that are beyond those allowed by current health standards, as well as to a range of risks that are poorly characterized, uncertain, and perhaps unforeseeable. As the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) and Congress discuss the next generation of NASA's missions and the U.S. role in international space efforts, it is important to understand the ethical factors that drive decision making about health standards and mission design for NASA activities. NASA asked the Institute of Medicine to outline the ethics principles and practices that should guide the agency's decision making for future long duration or exploration missions that fail to meet existing health standards. Health Standards for Long Duration and Exploration Spaceflight identifies an ethics framework, which builds on the work of NASA and others, and presents a set of recommendations for ethically assessing and responding to the challenges associated with health standards for long duration and exploration spaceflight. As technologies improve and longer and more distant spaceflight becomes feasible, NASA and its international and commercial partners will continue to face complex decisions about risk acceptability. This report provides a roadmap for ethically assessing and responding to the challenges associated with NASA's health standards for long duration and exploration missions. Establishing and maintaining a firmly grounded ethics framework for this inherently risky activity is essential to guide NASA's decisions today and to create a strong foundation for decisions about future challenges and opportunities"--Publisher's description.

Subjects

• United States > National Aeronautics and Space Administration
• Manned space flight > Moral and ethical aspects > United States
• Manned space flight > Risk management > United States
• Astronauts > Health risk assessment > United States

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographic references.

Contents

Introduction -- NASA risk management and health standards -- Health risks -- Risk acceptance and responsibilities in human spaceflight and terrestrial activities -- Recommendations for ethics principles -- Recommendations for ethics responsibilities and decision framework.

ISBN

• 0309296579
• 9780309296571

OCLC

• ocn882530042
• 882530042
• SCSB-5756855

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Columbia University Libraries