Safe Is Not An Option - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Safe Is Not An Option write by Rand Simberg. This book was released on 2014-04-10. Safe Is Not An Option available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The history of exploration and establishment of new lands, science and technologies has always entailed risk to the health and lives of the explorers. Yet, when it comes to exploring and developing the high frontier of space, the harshest frontier ever, the highest value is apparently not the accomplishment of those goals, but of minimizing, if not eliminating, the possibility of injury or death of the humans carrying them out. For decades since the end of Apollo, human spaceflight has been very expensive and relatively rare (about 500 people total, with a death rate of about 4%), largely because of this risk aversion on the part of the federal government and culture. From the Space Shuttle, to the International Space Station, the new commercial crew program to deliver astronauts to it, and the regulatory approach for commercial spaceflight providers, our attitude toward safety has been fundamentally irrational, expensive and even dangerous, while generating minimal accomplishment for maximal cost. This book entertainingly explains why this means that we must regulate passenger safety in the new commercial spaceflight industry with a lighter hand than many might instinctively prefer, that NASA must more carefully evaluate rewards from a planned mission to rationally determine how much should be spent to avoid the loss of participants, and that Congress must stop insisting that safety is the highest priority, for such insistence is an eloquent testament to how unimportant they and the nation consider the opening of this new
Security is Not an Option
Security is Not an Option - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Security is Not an Option write by Beatrice Coe. This book was released on 1997. Security is Not an Option available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Failure Is Not an Option
Failure Is Not an Option - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Failure Is Not an Option write by Gene Kranz. This book was released on 2009-06-23. Failure Is Not an Option available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The author, flight director in NASA's Mission Control, tells of the challenges in space flight from the very early years to the current time and of "his own bold suggestions about what we ought to be doing in space now."--Jacket.
Beyond Price
Beyond Price - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Beyond Price write by J. David Velleman. This book was released on 2015-10-08. Beyond Price available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In nine lively essays, bioethicist J. David Velleman challenges the prevailing consensus about assisted suicide and reproductive technology, articulating an original approach to the ethics of creating and ending human lives. He argues that assistance in dying is appropriate only at the point where talk of suicide is not, and he raises moral objections to anonymous donor conception. In their place, Velleman champions a morality of valuing personhood over happiness in making end-of-life decisions, and respecting the personhood of future children in making decisions about procreation. These controversial views are defended with philosophical rigor while remaining accessible to the general reader. Written over Velleman's 30 years of undergraduate teaching in bioethics, the essays have never before been collected and made available to a non-academic audience. They will open new lines of debate on issues of intense public interest.
SafeWare
SafeWare - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook SafeWare write by Nancy Leveson. This book was released on 1995. SafeWare available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. We are building systems today-and using computers to control them-that have the potential for large-scale destruction of life and environment. More than ever, software engineers and system developers, as well as their managers, must understand the issues and develop the skills needed to anticipate and prevent accidents. Nancy Leveson examines what is currently known about building safe electromechanical systems and looks at past accidents to see what practical lessons can be applied to new computer-controlled systems.
