The Human Factor in a Mission to Mars

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xii

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2. Environmental, Medical and Psychological Challenges of the Human Factor in a Mission to Mars

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1

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   2. Martian Environmental Psychology: The Choice Architecture of a Mars Mission and Colony

      • Steven Abood

      Pages 3-34

   3. Program Planning for a Mars Hardship Post: Social, Psychological, and Spiritual Services

      • Margaret Boone Rappaport, Christopher Corbally

      Pages 35-58

   4. Enabling and Enhancing Human Health and Performance for Mars Colonies: Smart Spacecraft and Smart Habitats

      • Mark Shelhamer

      Pages 59-67

   5. The Impact of Space Weather on Human Missions to Mars: The Need for Good Engineering and Good Forecasts

      • Mike Hapgood

      Pages 69-91

   6. Mars and Beyond: The Feasibility of Living in the Solar System

      • Chris Impey

      Pages 93-111

3. Ethical, Social and Cultural Contexts of the Human Factor in a Mission to Mars

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 113-113

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   2. Human Extremophiles: Mars as a Camera Obscura of the Extraterrestrial Scientific Culture

      • Klara Anna Capova

      Pages 115-132

   3. Colonising Mars. A Time Frame for Ethical Questioning

      • Jacques Arnould

      Pages 133-144

   4. Can Deep Altruism Sustain Space Settlement?

      • Jacob Haqq-Misra

      Pages 145-155

   5. Interplanetary Sustainability: Mars as a Means of a Long-Term Sustainable Development of Humankind in the Solar System?

      • Andreas Losch

      Pages 157-166

   6. Mars Environmental Protection: An Application of the 1/8 Principle

      • Tony Milligan, Martin Elvis

      Pages 167-183

   7. Science and Ethics in the Exploration of Mars

      • Gonzalo Munévar

      Pages 185-200

   8. Ethics for an Uninhabited Planet

      • Erik Persson

      Pages 201-216

   9. Religion for a Spatial Colony: Raising the Right Questions

      • Lluis Oviedo

      Pages 217-231

   10. Human Place in the Outer Space: Skeptical Remarks

       • Konrad Szocik

       Pages 233-252

4. Back Matter

   Pages 253-266

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A manned mission to Mars is faced with challenges and topics that may not be obvious but of great importance and challenging for such a mission. This is the first book that collects contributions from scholars in various fields, from astronomy and medicine, to theology and philosophy, addressing such topics. The discussion goes beyond medical and technological challenges of such a deep-space mission. The focus is on human nature, human emotions and biases in such a new environment.

The primary audience for this book are all researchers interested in the human factor in a space mission including philosophers, social scientists, astronomers, and others. This volume will also be of high interest for a much wider audience like the non-academic world, or for students.

• Mars colonization
• Human deep-space mission
• Space mission
• The future of mankind
• Exploration of Mars
• Ethics of human missions to Mars
• research ethics

• Department of Philosophy and Cognitive Science, University of Information Technology and Management in Rzeszow, Rzeszów, Poland

  Konrad Szocik

Konrad Szocik (born 1985 in Żary, Poland) received his PhD in Philosophy (Faculty of Philosophy, Jagiellonian University in Cracow, Poland). Currently, he is assistant professor at the University of Information Technology and Management in Rzeszów, and editor of the “Studia Humana” journal. Research areas include cognitive and evolutionary study of religion, evolution of cooperation, and the idea of the manned mission to Mars and Mars colonization.

Policies and ethics