Issue #2(2) 2014 Lounge

The vanity of machines

Me too – Curiosity Mars rover’s selfie at the ‘Windjana’ drilling site. Curiosity has accomplished its main goal by confirming that Mars once possessed conditions favourable for microbial life

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Portrait of astronaut and former director of the Johnson Space Center, Ellen Ochoa who in 1993 became the first Latina woman to go to space when she served on a nine-day mission aboard the Space Shuttle Discovery. Lounge

Art, imagination and the human spirit

Operators who view space primarily as infrastructure, a functional zone for communications or defence, tend to see debris as an operational risk rather than a symptom of an extractive system. Astronautics

The imagined sky – power, inequality and the future of space sustainability