In The Value of Science in Space Exploration, James S.J. Schwartz provides a thoughtful and rigorous defense of the view that space exploration activities should focus primarily on science, and that the knowledge and understanding we will gain from expanded space science activities will benefit humanity more over the next century than any attempts to settle Mars or mine asteroids.
James S.J. Schwartz is Assistant Teaching Professor of Philosophy at Wichita State University and coeditor of The Ethics of Space Exploration.