Our Projects

US National Science Foundation
Funded project on outer space cybersecurity (2022-2024)

Our Events

30-31 March 2023
Hoover Institution, Stanford University
Organizing an expert workshop on outer space cybersecurity

Journal Papers and Contributed Articles

February 2022
Military Space Ethics
Does Just War Theory Extend to the Space Frontier?

January 2021
Oxford Handbook of Philosophy of Technology
Outer Space as a New Frontier for Technology Ethics

15 July 2020
Artificial Intelligence and Global Security
Space War and AI

June 2019
Futures
Special Journal Issue: Human Colonization of Other Worlds
(Announcement here)

August 2015
Commercial Space Exploration: Ethics, Policy, and Governance
Enhancing Astronauts: The Ethical, Legal and Social Implications

6 October 2014
Slate
Introduction to Astronaut Bioethics

Winter 2006
Astropolitics
Space Ethics: Look Before Taking Another Leap for Mankind

Other Links

18 August 2023
Science
Cyberattack Shutters Major NSF-Funded Telescopes for More Than 2 Weeks

19 December 2022
Cal Poly
Ethics Professor Patrick Lin Joins U.S. Space Council Advisory Group

16 December 2022
SpaceNews
White House Revamps Membership of National Space Council Advisory Group

16 December 2022
The White House
Vice President Harris Announces Selections to the National Space Council’s Users Advisory Group

12 September 2022
Cal Poly
Cal Poly Wins First-Ever Grant on Space Cybersecurity from US National Science Foundation

7 July 2022
United Nations, Office of Disarmament Affairs
Disarmament and Non-Proliferation Education: 10th Biennial Report of the Secretary General

6 November 2020
Univ. of Colorado, CS
The Future of War ("Philosophy in the City' series)

July 2019
The Monthly (Australia)
Mining the Moon

31 January 2018
Making New Worlds
What If I Get Sick (in a Space Settlement)?

14 June 2018
New Yorker
Elon Musk and the Failure of Our Imagination in Space

30 September 2016
Financial Times
Elon Musk, Billionaire Tech Idealist and Space Entrepreneur

7 April 2015
Slate
Staying Healthy on the Red Planet

11 October 2014
BioEdge
Mars Exploration Bioethics 101

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