Dr Stuart Parkinson, SGR, debates the environmental impacts of human space flight - and related ethical issues - on BBC Radio 4's 'The Moral Maze'.

2 April 2026

The programme also features: Dr Simeon Barber, Lunar Scientist at Open University; Dr Tony Milligan, Philosopher in Space Ethics; Mary-Jane Rubenstein, Professor of Religion and Science in Society at Wesleyan University - and The Moral Maze panellists. 

Listen to the programme on BBC Sounds (57 mins): 
https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m002tbq5 
 

Also see...

The climatic impacts of spaceflight (2021)
https://www.sgr.org.uk/resources/climatic-impacts-spaceflight

The dark side of the Moon landings (2019)
https://www.sgr.org.uk/resources/dark-side-moon-landings 

Making space for peace - preventing Missile Defence expanding warfare (2010)
https://www.sgr.org.uk/resources/making-space-peace-preventing-missile-defence-expanding-warfare
 

Image credit: NASA Kennedy Space Center / NASA / John Kraus (Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons)