Dr Space Junk vs The Universe

Alice Gorman is a leader in the emerging field of space archaeology. Her work has been featured in National Geographic, the New Yorker, and the Atlantic. She is a Senior Member of the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics and Senior Lecturer at Flinders University, Adelaide. She tweets as @drspacejunk.Adam Charles Roberts (born 30 June 1965) is a British science fiction and fantasy novelist. He writes parodies under the pseudonyms of A.R.R.R. Roberts, A3R Roberts and Don Brine. He has a degree in English from the University of Aberdeen and a PhD from Cambridge University on Robert Browning and the Classics. He teaches English literature and creative writing at Royal Holloway, University of London. Adam Roberts has been nominated three times for the Arthur C. Clarke Award: in 2001 for his debut novel, Salt, in 2007 for Gradisil and in 2010 for Yellow Blue Tibia. He won both the 2012 BSFA Award for Best Novel, and the John W. Campbell Memorial Award, for Jack Glass. It was further shortlisted for The Kitschies Red Tentacle award. His short story "Tollund" was nominated for the 2014 Sidewise Award. Roberts' science fiction has been praised by many critics both inside and outside the genre, with some of the latter going so far as to describe him as being on a par with such past masters of the genre such as Pel Torro, John E. Muller, and Karl Zeigfreid.

• INTRODUCTION: LOOKING UP, LOOKING DOWN 1On Earth as it is in heaven 3A new era of space 9Dr Space Junk's tour of the solar system 12CHAPTER 1: HOW I BECAME A SPACE ARCHAEOLOGIST 16Outback and out of this world 17The Moon in the living room 20Venus in glasses 23Archaeology or astrophysics? 25Back to the past 30Stories from stone 33Lying in the gutter, looking up at the stars 37Launching into orbit 41CHAPTER 2: JOURNEY INTO SPACE 441940s: a rocket and a bomb 471950s: waging peace in the Cold War 511960s: ... and all I got was this lousy dust 561970s: the backyard satellite 601980s: aiming for the planet of love 641990s: if Versace were to design a satellite 672000s: a tale of two Rosetta stones 692010s: the Starman cometh 73The phases of the Space Age 76CHAPTER 3: SPACE ARCHAEOLOGY BEGINS ON EARTH 79The Cold War stayed for dinner 82A space for children 87The rocket park comes Down Under 90The ultimate rocket playground 93Cold War in the desert heat 96How to forget your own Space Age 98Valley of the cable ties 100Artefact of the Space Age - or rubbish? 104The story of a space age object 108CHAPTER 4: JUNKYARD EARTH 114One thousand elephants orbiting the earth 119The cane toads of space 125The cosmos in our backyard 131Environmental management in space 135What is dead can never die 141'And warm with human love the chill of space' 143CHAPTER 5: SHADOWS ON THE MOON 146When birds migrated to the Moon 149The children's Moon 155The Moon of science or the Moon of lovers? 157The future of the lunar past 160An ephemeral archaeology 166A descent into darkness 169Shadows and dust 174The many-coloured Moon 179CHAPTER 6: THE EDGE OF KNOWN SPACE 181The new worlds 185The archaeology of not-quite-there 192The ghost in the machine 198The place defined by wind 202Beyond the morning star 206CHAPTER 7: WHOSE SPACE IS IT ANYWAY? 212The 'sweet poison of the false infinite' 213Exteriores spatium nullius 217Who has the rights to space? 223A planet by any other name 226Reflecting Earth in space 229Contested territories 234Lines on a map 241CHAPTER 8: FUTURE ARCHAEOLOGY 244True infinite 247The body in the machine 252Space marked by death 256When life means gravity 260The abandoned solar system 265The Small Dance 274SELECTED REFERENCES 276INDEX 283

"With a light and conversational voice, Alice Gorman delivers piercing insights into the meaning of our various efforts to leave Earth behind, as well as an entertaining primer on how archaeologists work and what they can teach us. This book is a must read for anyone interested in both the past and the future of space exploration."—Emily Lakdawalla, author of The Design and Engineering of Curiosity: How the Mars Rover Does Its Job "Alice Gorman‘s unique book is far more than a look at the space debris that is orbiting Earth; rather, this mesmerizing tour of human effects on our planetary space and on neighboring worlds will leave readers with a completely new sense of the solar system. Bravo!"—David J. Eicher, Editor-in-Chief, Astronomy Magazine "Alice Gorman opens our eyes to the too-recent-to-be-appreciated artifacts of the space age, and points out their import and beauty. From the tens of thousands of macro-size objects orbiting Earth to the landers, rovers and other hardware abandoned on the moon and Mars, Gorman finds poetry and pertinence in the space age. Who knew the archaeology of the future is above our heads?"—Seth Shostak, Senior Astronomer, Institute Fellow, SETI Institute "Alice Gorman's engaging meditation on the significance we give to space artifacts and space exploration challenges us to think about the cultural value of space junk. This book will be of interest not just to space enthusiasts but to all those fascinated by how humans give meaning to objects around them."—Jonathan McDowell, Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics