• Visual Displays in Space Station Culture: An Archeological Analysis

    Author(s):
    Alice Gorman, Justin Walsh (see profile)
    Date:
    2021
    Group(s):
    Anthropology, Archaeology, Visual Anthropology
    Subject(s):
    Archaeology, Space archaeology
    Item Type:
    Article
    Tag(s):
    International Space Station, Post-Soviet space, Visual studies
    Permanent URL:
    http://dx.doi.org/10.17613/jy8k-3224
    Abstract:
    We offer an archaeological analysis of the visual display of “space heroes” and Orthodox icons in the Russian Zvezda module of the International Space Station (ISS). This study is the first systematic investigation of material culture at a site in space. The ISS has now been continuously inhabited for 20 years. Here, focusing on the period 2000–2014, we use historic imagery from NASA archives to track the changing presence of 78 different items in a single zone. We also explore how ideas about which items are appropriate for display and where to display them originated in earlier Soviet and Russian space stations starting as early as the 1970s. In this way, we identify the emergence and evolution of a particular kind of space station culture with implications for future habitat design.
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    Pub. DOI:
    https://doi.org/10.1086/717778
    Publisher:
    University of Chicago Press
    Pub. Date:
    2021
    Journal:
    Current Anthropology
    Volume:
    62
    Issue:
    6
    ISSN:
    0011-3204
    Status:
    Published
    Last Updated:
    2 years ago
    License:
    Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike
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