Location: Hubbard Hall, Room 231

Join the Wichita Space Initiative for the inaugural Space Exploration Lecture Series talk!  With the passage of the 2015 Commercial Space Launch Competitiveness Act and the similar Luxembourg Law on Use of Resources in Space there is growing excitement about the extraction and use of resources from the Moon and near-Earth asteroids.

James Schwartz (Department of Philosophy), editor of The Ethics of Space Exploration (Springer 2016) and a leading figure in the philosophy and ethics of space exploration, will explore the issue of space mining from a policy-perspective. His talk will highlight the relative scarcity of easily accessible space resources, arguing that space mining must be regulated carefully in order to ensure the sustainability of spaceflight activities. The talk will be based on a chapter of his upcoming book, tentatively titled The Value of Space Science.