Ethical challenges in space: norms and conventions for peaceful spacefaring.

M embers of the Society and the Acadernies, distinguished guests, it’s an absolute honour to be here today to talk to some fantastically curious minds. 1 This is the speed-dating version of space ethics. These are my opinions and not the opinions of the particular organisations that I work for. In 2020 ,1 will be the Senior Ethicist for the Air Force with a mandate to work in space ethics and even then my opinions will be my own as well. What is space ethics? I had a lovely expe¬ rience with a 14-year-old girl: I go and do a lot STEM things — people were talking ear¬ lier about how we do training. Ed like to say all of us in this room have a responsibility to get young people excited about science and space: I go into high schools and I talk about the ethics of what they’re looking at, and get young people to talk about those sorts of things. My favourite story is of a 14-yearold girl who, when the teacher introduced me, said, u Oh you’re a space ethicist, is that like a real job?” I’d just like to say when the Governor today mentioned space ethics, I was sitting up the back going, “It’s a real job.” What is space ethics? Obviously space ethics is looking at the ethical implications of what we do in space and also within the space industry potentially on Earth and potentially about the future plans that we