Geography 2090A/B Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Outer Space Treaty, Planetary Science, Space Race

• School: Western University
• Department: Geography
• Course: Geography 2090A/B
• Professor: Daniel Bednar

Document Summary

Lecture course intro & why space matters. Other topics: planetary science and geography, astronomy and astrophysics, engineering, history and politics. Jfk, space race with the cold war: cultural studies. Videos are testable make sure to watch them. Evaluation: midterm june 8th, assignment june 20th. Academic referencing for all sources and images. Due june 20th in physical form two options. Politics/history international governance around space: outer space treaty what we are and allowed to do in space. Broken a number of times: prepare a report on three instances on which the treaty was violated and report the incident. Who did it, why did they do it, etc. Includes things that happened before the treaty was signed: speaker notes june 15th, chicago format. Weeks 1, 3, and 4 researchers from around western will be presenting their works. Points from the speaker will be on the midterm and final exam (get notebook)