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Dr Space Junk aka Alice Gorman
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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. mitpress.mit.ed
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I've written a significance assessment of the Apollo 11 bootprints, but I hadn't actually joined these dots between the seamstresses and the overshoes until now. I'll have to update it! You can read it here, excerpted from the full report. 🏺🧪 #FeministMoon

A significance assessment of the Apollo 11 bootprints
A significance assessment of the Apollo 11 bootprints

This case study shows how the Burra Charter (2013) significance criteria can be applied to a heritage feature on the Moon, the astronaut bo...

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Let's have a look at the metallised kapton films used for thermal insulation on the Apollo spacecraft, and practically everything since. In the 1960s, NASA was experimenting with plastics stuck to metal sheets for spacecraft like the Echo balloons. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project...#FeministMoon

Project Echo - Wikipedia
Project Echo - Wikipedia

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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. mitpress.mit.ed
2.4k followers564 following1.6k posts