TY - JOUR
T1 - Visual displays in space station culture
T2 - an archaeological analysis
AU - Walsh, Justin St P.
AU - Gorman, Alice C.
AU - Salmond, Wendy
PY - 2021/12
Y1 - 2021/12
N2 - 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.
AB - 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.
KW - Space archaeology
KW - Archaeology of the contemporary past
KW - International Space Station
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85121614629&partnerID=8YFLogxK
UR - http://purl.org/au-research/grants/ARC/DP190102747
U2 - 10.1086/717778
DO - 10.1086/717778
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85121614629
SN - 0011-3204
VL - 62
SP - 804
EP - 818
JO - Current Anthropology
JF - Current Anthropology
IS - 6
ER -