03 February 2018
Australia in Space
... that the remains of the deorbiting Skylab space station fell within its territory. This is, of course, a gross misrepresentation of the nation’s activities in space, as Australian space historian Kerrie Dougherty reveals in her new book. Although...
September 2017
Australia’s unique space history
... from Woomera. Woomera was also the home of space tracking facilities initially established in conjunction with the International... Kerrie Dougherty is an independent curator and space historian with more than 30 years’ experience working in museums...
June 2022
Pandemic parallels
..., however, that lessons can be learned for long-duration space travel from the lockdowns resulting from Covid. Outer space, as has been noted by science journalist and space historian Andrew Chaikin, is “a place of such unrelenting sameness”. Despite...
January 2021
Spacepower and international relations
...strategy and international relations must grapple with the notion that space has become an adjunct to the security and well-...polarised space-centric view is confirmed by the space historian Brian Harvey, who wrote that: “the early years of space…...
