Humans in Outer Space - Interdisciplinary Odysseys

Kai-Uwe Schrogl ist Leiter Unternehmensentwicklung und Außenbeziehungen des Deutschen Zentrums für Luft- und Raumfahrt in Köln.

Setting The Scene.- Summary.- Micro-organisms and extraterrestrial travel.- Future encounters: learning from the past?.- Are we alone? Searching for life in the universe and its creation.- What's the story, mother? Some thoughts on Science Fiction Film and Space Travel.- Aiming ahead: next generation visions for the next 50 years in space.- Can We Compare?.- Summary.- Inter caetero and outer space: some rules of engagement.- Celestial bodies: Lucy in the sky.- Why we had better drop analogies when discussing the role of humans in space.- 'Spatiality' - Space As A Source of Inspiration.- Summary.- Missing the impossible: how we talk and write about space.- Towards a new inspiring era of collaborative space exploration.- First Odyssey: Humans in Earth Orbit: what Effect does It Have?.- Summary.- With the eyes of an astronaut.- Human spaceflight, technology development and innovation.- Human-machine cooperation in space environments.- Space law in the age of the International Space Station.- Second Odyssey: Humans in Space Exploration: What Effects Will It Have?.- Summary.- Humans - more than the better robots for exploration?.- Humans leaving the Earth - a philosopher's view.- Human spaceflight as a matter of culture and national vision.- The need of a legal framework for space exploration.- Third Odyssey: Humans Migrating the Earth: How Will It Affect Human Thought?.- Summary.- Mars as a place to live? Past, present and future.- Philosophical and religious implications of extraterrestrial intelligent life.- ET culture.- The Vienna Vision on Humans in Outer Space.- Humans in Outer Space.