Ethically cleared to launch?

Vasiliki Rahimzadeh; Jennifer Fogarty; Timothy Caulfield; Serena Auñón-Chancellor; Pascal Borry; Jessica Candia; I Glenn Cohen; Marisa Covington; Holly Fernandez Lynch; Henry T Greely; Michelle Hanlon; James Hatt; Lucie Low; Jerry Menikoff; Eric M Meslin; Steven Platts; Vardit Ravitsky; Tara Ruttley; Rachael D Seidler; Jeremy Sugarman; Emmanuel Urquieta; Michael A Williams; Paul Root Wolpe; Dorit Donoviel; Amy L McGuire

doi:10.1126/science.adh9028

Ethically cleared to launch?

Science. 2023 Sep 29;381(6665):1408-1411. doi: 10.1126/science.adh9028. Epub 2023 Sep 28.

Authors

Vasiliki Rahimzadeh¹, Jennifer Fogarty², Timothy Caulfield³, Serena Auñón-Chancellor⁴, Pascal Borry⁵, Jessica Candia⁶, I Glenn Cohen⁷, Marisa Covington⁸, Holly Fernandez Lynch⁹, Henry T Greely¹⁰, Michelle Hanlon¹¹, James Hatt¹², Lucie Low¹³, Jerry Menikoff¹⁴, Eric M Meslin¹⁵, Steven Platts¹⁶, Vardit Ravitsky^{17

18}, Tara Ruttley¹⁹, Rachael D Seidler^{20

21}, Jeremy Sugarman²², Emmanuel Urquieta², Michael A Williams^{23

24}, Paul Root Wolpe²⁵, Dorit Donoviel², Amy L McGuire¹

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