Human Factor in a Mission to Mars

Konrad Szocik (born 1985 in Żary, Poland) received his PhD in Philosophy (Faculty of Philosophy, Jagiellonian University in Cracow, Poland). Currently, he is assistant professor at the University of Information Technology and Management in Rzeszów, and editor of the “Studia Humana” journal. Research areas include cognitive and evolutionary study of religion, evolution of cooperation, and the idea of the manned mission to Mars and Mars colonization.

• Martian Environmental Psychology: The Choice Architecture of a Mars Mission and Colony.- One Mars: The Ethics of Settlement in a Unique Place.- Can Deep Altruism Sustain Space Settlement?.- Interplanetary Sustainability: Mars as a Means of a Long-term Sustainable Development of Humankind in the Solar System.- Mars, the Next Frontier? A Public Ethical Interrogation.- Ethics on an Uninhabited Planet.- Mars and Beyond: The Feasibility of Living in the Solar System.- Program Services Planning for a Mars Hardship Post; Reflections on the Need for Social, Psychological, and Spiritual Services.- Identifying and Monitoring the Complex System-of-Systems that Constitutes Human Habitation of Mars.- Envisioning the Martian Colonies.- Religion for a Spatial Colony: Posing the Right Questions.- Human Place in Outer Space: Should We and Can We Build a Human Colony on Mars? Skeptical Remarks.- Mars and the New Colonies: A Declaration of Independence? Interplanetary Fiduciary Relationships and a self-sustaining Off-Planet Economy.- Science and Ethics in the Exploration of Mars.