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| Ethics
and the Commercialization of Outer Space
Sandra
Schuh, Ph.D.
Development Team
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Introduction
This
module examines ethical issues involved in the commercialization
of Outer Space. The problems of commerce and economic justice
in space threaten to present some of the most complex challenges
for the field of ethics in the future. If a space based business
differs significantly from its earth based sister company? Are
we presented with a new set of ethical issues, or are we confronted,
for example, with the same “business as usual” ethical
problems that plague us here on earth? Is “business ethics”
an oxymoron? Is “space based business ethics” an oxymoron?
We must investigate the ethical data as well as the technical
and scientific data involved in our venture into outer-space.
We need to make sure our trek into outer space is pursued in peaceful,
safe, productive and ethical ways.
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Key
Concepts and Vocabulary
Biospherical
Equitorial
Geosynchronous
Global
Magnetism
N.O.R. A. D. (North American Air Defense)
Oxygen
Satellite
Solar Energy
Space Shuttle
Sterility (in space)
Vacuum
Zero gravity
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Background
for for
Teachers
It has been widely publicized
that the Wright Brothers’ first attempted flight on December
17, 1903, was shorter than the actual length of today’s space
shuttle vehicle. A little more the fifty years later, on October
4, 1957, there was one man made object in space: the Russian Sputnik
1. Within twenty years, approximately 4,500 objects in space were
being tracked by N.O.R.A.D., North American Air Defense. By the
mid-1970s, about 25,000 objects were being tracked. Today, the number
of objects in space continues to multiply.
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