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Dr Space Junk aka Alice Gorman
@drspacejunk.bsky.social
Space archaeologist working on space junk from Earth's surface to beyond the heliopause | Vice-chair, Global Expert Group for Sustainable Lunar Activity | Author, Dr Space Junk vs the Universe.
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At the Apollo 11 landing site, celebrated as the first place humans set foot on another planet, the famous first footprint left by Neil Armstrong was created by an overshoe made by women at the International Latex Corporation (ILC) in Dover, Delaware. 🧪 #FeministMoon
The sole of the Apollo overshoes had a particular pattern so that photographs of it could be used to calculate depth and reflectance. The shoes were an experiment. Armstrong and Aldrin discarded the overshoes with lots of other stuff to make sure the ascent module was light enough to take off. 🧪
DS
Dr Space Junk aka Alice Gorman
@drspacejunk.bsky.social
Space archaeologist working on space junk from Earth's surface to beyond the heliopause | Vice-chair, Global Expert Group for Sustainable Lunar Activity | Author, Dr Space Junk vs the Universe.
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2.4k followers564 following1.6k posts