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Space ethics, astroethics or astrobioethics [1] is a discipline of applied ethics that discusses the moral and ethical implications arising from astrobiological ...
Space law is the body of law governing space-related activities, encompassing both international and domestic agreements, rules, and principles. [1] Parameters of space law include space exploration, liability for damage, weapons use, rescue efforts, environmental preservation, information sharing, new technologies, and ethics. [2]
Space heritage has been defined as heritage related to the process of carrying our science in space; heritage related to crewed space flight/exploration; and human cultural heritage that remains off the surface of planet Earth. [24] The field of space archaeology is the research-based study of all the various human-made items in outer space. [25]
Save the environment of Earth by moving people and industry into space; Biotic ethics is a branch of ethics that values life itself. For biotic ethics, and their extension to space as panbiotic ethics, it is a human purpose to secure and propagate life and to use space to maximize life.
Tufte cites the way PowerPoint was used by NASA engineers in the events leading to the Space Shuttle Columbia disaster as an example of PowerPoint's many problems. The software style is designed to persuade rather than to inform people of technical details.
Space policy is the political decision-making process for, and application of, public policy of a state (or association of states) regarding spaceflight and uses of ...
Space advocacy is supporting or advocating human activity in outer space. The advocated purposes range from orbital flight, space exploration, ...
Isaac Newton suggests the existence of an aether in the Third Book of Opticks (1st ed. 1704; 2nd ed. 1718): "Doth not this aethereal medium in passing out of water, glass, crystal, and other compact and dense bodies in empty spaces, grow denser and denser by degrees, and by that means refract the rays of light not in a point, but by bending them gradually in curve lines? ...