The archaeology of plastics in outer space 🏺🧪 #SpaceArchaeology

Plastics in Outer Space | 34 | The Routledge Handbook of Archaeology a

The advent of mass-produced plastics coincided with the Space Age in the 1950s. Plastics were used in spacecraft manufacture from the launch of the first

Space archaeology is turning 25 next year! Back in 2005, I convened a symposium on the cultural heritage of Woomera, one of the world's earliest rocket launch sites. #spacearchaeology 🔭🛰️ 🏺

A news story in German about our first results from archaeological fieldwork on the International Space Station #SpaceArchaeology

Leben auf der ISS: Wie archäologische Methoden in der Raumfahrt helfen könnten

There's #art#AuthorizedArt#Moon#SpaceArchaeology🏺www.scientificamerican.com/article/how-...@smithsonianmag.bsky.social

How Jeff Koons’s Lunar Artwork Could Outlast All of Humanity

How long can humanity’s artifacts endure on the lunar surface? A new installation from artist Jeff Koons is inadvertently putting this question to the test

Whole super interesting thread of super fascinating #SpaceArchaeology insights and key findings! 👇

JWjstpwalsh.bsky.socialFeb 19, 2024 4:11pm

In this work, we examine two of the six sample locations - a workstation in Node 2 and a blank wall in Node 3 - documented by the crew with daily photography from January to March 2022. We analyze the function of each area and chronological trends.

We don't do hashtags here, but... #spacearchaeology

DJaussiastronomer.bsky.socialFeb 6, 2024 4:19pm

This is such a fantastically composed and historically meaningful final photo of Ingenuity, taken by Perseverence before it drove away, that I want to make it my phone background but also I don't want to cry every time I look at my phone screen. 🥺

One year ago, my co-PI @drspacejunk.bsky.social#spacearchaeology

There's limited protection for heritage sites on the Moon. What happens when spacecraft crash onto them? https://www.inverse.com/science/ispace-crash-apollo-sites-need-protection-archaeologists-say #SpaceArchaeology

iSpace Crash Highlights Why Apollo Sites Need Protection, Say Archaeologists

As commercial missions to the Moon ramp up, historic landing sites are vulnerable to robotic tourism, crash landings, and other damage.