What happens when someone dies in space? Space tourism brings new legal and moral issues

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What happens when someone dies in space? Space tourism brings new legal and moral issues
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Commercial spaceflight companies such as Virgin Galactic and Blue Origin are now offering exclusive opportunities for celebrities and civilians to travel to space.

. This means the risk of a death in space from natural causes is very low, though not impossible.

Fundamentally, there will need to be some sort of investigative process put in place to establish the cause of death of humans in outer space. There have been inquests before, such as the inquiry into the in 2003, where Nasa’s space shuttle Columbia disintegrated as it returned to Earth, killing the seven astronauts on board.

A formal procedure for investigating deaths on long-duration missions and space settlements will be necessary to ensure there is clear information on who died, the causes of death, and so lessons can be learned and possible patterns detected.Many of the procedures associated with inquests and investigations could be imported from Earth. International space law provides whereby a country that has registered a spacecraft has jurisdiction over that space object and any personnel.

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