INGS1002 Lecture 14: week 14 The Political Geographies of Outer Space
23 Dec 2018
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Week 14 the political geographies of outer space. Space as being produced through social action, space as relational, space as a site where justice can be addressed. Given that outer-earth has been a sphere of human endeavour for well over 50 years, a critical geography of space is long overdue. Space has been inhabited by humans, with relatively short absences for the last 20 years, and without interruption since 2 november 2000. Our species is now represented in space by the crew of the inter- national space station (iss) There are currently around 700 operational spacecraft in continuous orbit of the earth, serving a var- iety of military, civilian and commercial uses. Over 60 new launches take place every year, and at least 35 nations now have payloads in orbit. Forty years since the first russian space probe landed on venus, a new major european space.
