1. A brief genealogy of space ethics

The consequences of the emergence and development of a new technology are difficult to predict; as a field of human activity, space, born in the middle of the 20th century, is no exception to this rule. The development of astronautics undoubtedly fulfilled the dreams and objectives of its progenitors, the military and scientists, who pooled their knowledge and intelligence, their will and their resources, to free machines, and then humans, from the Earth's gravitational pull, orbiting the Earth and sending them off to discover the Moon and other planets. States were thus able to assert or strengthen their sovereignty, and entire astronomical territories were cleared. At the same time, the conquest of space has revolutionized human life, often to unforeseeable extents, to the extent that our societies have become highly dependent on the incessant race of satellites overhead