Engineering Ethics

I chose the topic Manned trip to mars because even since I read the novel “The Martian” by Andy Weir, the idea of being able to survive on another planet seems to be very fascinating to me. Now that famous billionaires like Jeff Bezos and Elon Musk are on a race to build cities on Mars, this Science Fiction of living on another planet might come to reality. Therefore, I chose this topic and in this essay I plan to write about the three elements of engineering in that I plan to base my analysis of ethics on.

1. Safety: The safety of astronauts should be the top priority of the mission. Engineers must design and test all the aspect of the mission to ensure that the astronauts have enough resources and support they need to stay safe.

2. Contamination: Engineers should be careful so as not to contaminate the ecosystem we visit or our own planet after the mission.

3. Sustainability: engineers should make the design the spacecraft and other technologies in such a way that it minimizes polluting our planet and the planet they will go on.