Bioethics Breakfast Club - Life in Space

Join Cheryl Nickerson, SOLS, and Timiebi Aganaba, SFIS, to explore ethical questions concerning space futures and research in space. Why is space exploration important to do, even as so many problems on Earth deserve our attention (and money)? What do we know about how the human body--including its collection of microorganisms--will behave on longer-term space missions? How is microbiological research informing the protection of astronauts during missions, as well as efforts to prevent forward and backward contamination? What strategies of governance are being developed for space exploration, and how might those strategies inspire more creative thinking about the governance of more Earthly technologies?