Ethically cleared to launch?
Science
.
2023 Sep 29;381(6665):1408-1411.
doi: 10.1126/science.adh9028.
Epub 2023 Sep 28.
Authors
Vasiliki Rahimzadeh
1
,
Jennifer Fogarty
2
,
Timothy Caulfield
3
,
Serena Auñón-Chancellor
4
,
Pascal Borry
5
,
Jessica Candia
6
,
I Glenn Cohen
7
,
Marisa Covington
8
,
Holly Fernandez Lynch
9
,
Henry T Greely
10
,
Michelle Hanlon
11
,
James Hatt
12
,
Lucie Low
13
,
Jerry Menikoff
14
,
Eric M Meslin
15
,
Steven Platts
16
,
Vardit Ravitsky
17
18
,
Tara Ruttley
19
,
Rachael D Seidler
20
21
,
Jeremy Sugarman
22
,
Emmanuel Urquieta
2
,
Michael A Williams
23
24
,
Paul Root Wolpe
25
,
Dorit Donoviel
2
,
Amy L McGuire
1
Affiliations
1
Center for Medical Ethics and Health Policy, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX, USA.
2
Translational Research Institute for Space Health, Center for Space Medicine, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX, USA.
3
Faculty of Law and School of Public Health, University of Alberta, Edmonton, AB, Canada.
4
Louisiana State University Health Science Center Baton Rouge Campus, Baton Rouge, LA, USA.
5
Centre for Biomedical Ethics and Law, Department of Public Health and Primary Care, KU Leuven, Leuven, Belgium.
6
Component Office of Human Research Protections, Air Force Medical Readiness Agency, Department of the Air Force, Falls Church, VA, USA.
7
The Petrie-Flom Center for Health Law Policy, Biotechnology, and Bioethics at Harvard Law School, Cambridge, MA, USA.
8
Office of Research Assurance, Office of the Chief Health and Medical Officer, National Aeronautics and Space Administration, Houston, TX, USA.
9
Department of Medical Ethics and Health Policy, Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, USA.
10
The Center for Law and the Biosciences, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, USA.
11
Center for Air and Space Law, University of Mississippi, Oxford, MS, USA.
12
Space Policy Division, Office of Commercial Space Transportation, Federal Aviation Administration, Washington, DC, USA.
13
Axiom Space, Houston, TX, USA.
14
Centre for Biomedical Ethics, National University of Singapore, Republic of Singapore.
15
Council of Canadian Academies, Ottawa, ON, Canada.
16
Human Research Program, NASA Johnson Space Center, Houston, TX, USA.
17
School of Public Health, University of Montreal, Montreal, Canada.
18
Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA.
19
Orbital Reef, Blue Origin, Washington, DC, USA.
20
Department of Applied Physiology and Kinesiology, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, USA.
21
Department of Neurology, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, USA.
22
Berman Institute of Bioethics and Department of Medicine, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, USA.
23
Department of Neurology, University of Washington School of Medicine, Seattle, WA, USA.
24
Department of Neurological Surgery, University of Washington School of Medicine, Seattle, WA, USA.
25
Center for Ethics, Emory University, Atlanta, GA, USA.
PMID:
37769066
DOI:
10.1126/science.adh9028
Abstract
Rules are needed for human research in commercial spaceflight.
MeSH terms
Human Experimentation* / ethics
Human Experimentation* / legislation & jurisprudence
Humans
Research Subjects*
Space Flight* / ethics