SPACE AGE ARCHAEOLOGY

Cultural landscapes are a powerful way of conceptualising the interaction of human activities with the space environment. From the surface of Earth to the far reaches of the solar system, there a...

http://zoharesque.blogspot.com/2024/04/cultural-landscapes-in-outer-space.html

This case study shows how the Burra Charter (2013) significance criteria can be applied to a heritage feature on the Moon, the astronaut bootprints which are part of the Apollo 11 site. The boot...

http://zoharesque.blogspot.com/2024/04/a-significance-assessment-of-apollo-11.html

Before I was an academic, I was a professional heritage consultant working with Aboriginal communities in Australia. I worked on all stages of mining projects from exploratory drilling, through p...

http://zoharesque.blogspot.com/2024/04/how-we-manage-values-of-off-earth.html

Josephine Baker being fabulous, 1927. Source: Wikimedia Commons The Nova-C lander , which touched down on the Moon on the 23rd of February 2024, is  carrying a very interesting object – 12...

http://zoharesque.blogspot.com/2024/02/the-odysseus-lunar-lander-carried.html

Whenever I talk to people about future plans for the Moon, it’s clear that the impacts of mining and other activities on the lunar environment are a major concern.  An aim of the Global Expe...

http://zoharesque.blogspot.com/2023/12/japanese-lunar-heritage-and-global.html

Why do we need an archaeology of space? Haven’t we got an abundant documentary record to tell us all about spacecraft and their stories? Not, as it turns out. The documentary record is far from...

http://zoharesque.blogspot.com/2023/09/why-do-we-need-archaeology-of-space.html

Recently I wanted to find a good quote about space ethics. There I hit my first problem, as there wasn't much available, short of going back to primary sources and reading through huge swathes of...

http://zoharesque.blogspot.com/2023/04/space-quotes-by-women.html

Every year on June 16, the anniversary of Dr Valentina Tereshkova's spaceflight, where she became the first women ever to leave Earth, I generally do some social media around the event. And ther...

http://zoharesque.blogspot.com/2022/06/valentina-tereshkova-and-double.html

INTRODUCTION One day I realised that I had been writing a lot about Konstantin Tsiolkovsky , but it had never occurred to me wonder about his wife or partner. Was she involved in his work? What...

http://zoharesque.blogspot.com/2020/05/varvara-sokolova.html

Among the oldest pieces of space junk in Earth orbit are de-spin weights from the US series of TIROS weather and TV satellites. I've been noticing them in debris catalogues for years, and decided...

http://zoharesque.blogspot.com/2020/11/a-space-junk-bestiary-yo-yo-de-spin.html

This post follows on from Ten Ways to Get Involved in Space Without Leaving Earth . When I started to put this list together, it turned out there were SO many more things you could do from the ...

http://zoharesque.blogspot.com/2020/07/ten-more-ways-to-get-involved-in-space.html

This is an exercise I created to allow my friends to join me online (through Twitter) to celebrate my recent birthday, as the Covid-19 virus has stopped all physical parties across the world. It...

http://zoharesque.blogspot.com/2020/04/dr-space-junks-pan-galactic-birthday.html

On April 6, 2020, US President Trump issued an Executive Order rejecting the 1979 Moon Agreement and the idea that outer space is a global commons.  What is space if it is not a global comm...

http://zoharesque.blogspot.com/2020/04/is-earths-core-global-commons-and-what.html

The impact of the Space Age was not just in science and technology - it was also in popular and everyday culture. If you were a kid growing up in Australia from the 1960s until the the 1990s, yo...

http://zoharesque.blogspot.com/2020/01/australian-space-icon-mr-squiggle-man.html

ONE WEEKEND I WAS IDLING AT HOME WATCHING CHEESY AMERICAN SITCOMS FROM THE 1960S AND 1970S, AND I CHANCED ACROSS A VERY INTERESTING EPISODE OF THE BRADY BUNCH. I WAS ARRESTED BY A THEME THAT I'V...

http://zoharesque.blogspot.com/2019/12/stone-age-to-space-age-in-1960s-and-70s.html

In my book Dr Space Junk vs the Universe: Archaeology and the Future , I start every chapter with a poem or a quote by a woman. This was something I decided to do very early on in the writing pr...

http://zoharesque.blogspot.com/2019/09/words-and-poems-by-women-in-dr-space.html

One of the things I've been thinking about for a while is the the structure of the archaeological record of Earth orbit - all the spacecraft that have been launched over the last 60 years, and...

http://zoharesque.blogspot.com/2019/08/an-archaeological-perspective-on.html

INTRODUCTION No woman has yet set foot on the Moon in reality; but in science fiction there have been plenty of female lunar explorers. This 1953 black-and-white science fiction classic...

http://zoharesque.blogspot.com/2019/07/cat-women-of-moon-ideas-of-space-travel.html

If you are interested in the issues around managing the cultural heritage values of archaeological sites located on the Moon, these are the key works that you need to read. A bibliography of the...

http://zoharesque.blogspot.com/2019/05/key-works-in-lunar-cultural-heritage.html

I was reflecting on the phenomenon of anthropomorphising space technology. Two social media-mediated incidents are central to my personal experience with this. From my early days on Twitter, ...

http://zoharesque.blogspot.com/2019/05/all-artefacts-are-anthropomorphic.html

Experiencing weightlessness, watching the Earth rise over the stark lunar landscape, and seeing the stars exposed without the veil of the Earth's atmosphere: who hasn't thought about what it wou...

http://zoharesque.blogspot.com/2019/04/ten-ways-to-get-involved-in-space.html

At the moment, we feel kind of connected to many places off-Earth. We have active experiments, orbiters and rovers on the Moon and Mars. Japan's Akatsuki is in orbit around Venus. New Horizons ...

http://zoharesque.blogspot.com/2019/04/the-end-of-space-age.html

'Space Age Suds' is a charming and slightly alarming little vignette which is about the seeping of the Space Age into domestic life, machines and technology and how they structure social relatio...

http://zoharesque.blogspot.com/2019/03/space-age-suds-women-washing-machines.html

I. READY FOR LAUNCH The suit is working well. The inflow stream is working well. I’m ready for launch. I feel excellent. Everything is normal. I’m not a delicate lady. Everything...

http://zoharesque.blogspot.com/2019/02/here-now-sun-poem-for-valentina.html

--> READY FOR LAUNCH The suit is working well. The inflow stream is working well. I’m ready for launch. I feel excellent. Everything is normal. I’m not a delicate lady...

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