Good morning class! Welcome back to Space Archaeology on Twitter. Today we start Module 2 on terrestrial space archaeology - the places and objects relating to space exploration on the surface of Earth. #drspacejunk101
In Module 1, history and background, we looked at definitions of space archaeology, a few of the early people and publications, and how it relates to ethnoarchaeology, historical archaeology and contemporary archaeology #drspacejunk101
Everything in space today started on Earth. It was conceived, manufactured out of terrestrial materials, launched from Earth, and maintains contact through ground-based antennas. All these places are connected. #drspacejunk101
Think of the difference when space hardware is manufactured from materials from a different planet, or perhaps is a hybrid of terrestrial and 'local' materials, wherever local is. #drspacejunk101
Terrestrial space places are connected to objects and places throughout the solar system. You could call it a three-tiered cultural landscape, as I do here (from Gorman 2005). #drspacejunk101 
Cultural landscapes are something I'll be talking a lot more about in our course. So here is your first homework for Module 2: read Gorman 2005 'The cultural landscape of interplanetary space', which you can download here documentcloud.adobe.com/link/review?ur… #drspacejunk101
Let me know if this link doesn't work! So on Earth, space sites can be rocket launch sites, residential facilities, tracking stations, research and development facilities, manufacturing places, test facilities and a whole lot more. #drspacejunk101
I would even count domestic satellite antennas and smart phones as space infrastructure. Space is all around you! #spacearchaeology images.app.goo.gl/m1iZKxPv1KKa3Y…
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One of my favourite kinds of terrestrial space site is the children's playground rocket. #drspacejunk101
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Every country on Earth would have some space infrastructure, whether it hosts a tracking station, or has urban skylines dotted with dishes. So every country has its own space heritage. This is global. #drspacejunk101
However, in the space world the globe is divided up into 'space-faring' and 'non-spacefaring' nations. To be space-faring, you have to have launch capacity. Space-faring nations are US, Russia, India, China, Israel, 'Europe', and a few others. #drspacejunk101
This is a revealing contrast to the oft-cited rationale for space exploration, that it is a basic human urge to explore. If this were the case, rather than defence/national prestige, why is it only a few nations are space-faring? #drspacejunk101
The nation-state itself is a historically contingent unit of analysis - so many states came into being through post-second world war independence movements which broke up the European empires #drspacejunk101
As we'll see, the space industry is thoroughly entangled with colonialism and this is played out in a myriad of ways. #drspacejunk101
I'll leave it there for today. As always, let me know if you have any questions. Here is another link for today's reading, The Cultural Landscape of Interplanetary Space #drspacejunk101 yorku.ca/kdenning/Docum…
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Good morning class! It's 7.00 am in South Australia and cloudy outside. I'm in bed but will get up when the lure of the hot cross bun becomes too great. This morning we continue on terrestrial space archaeology. #drspacejunk101
A reminder that I'll only ask you to read free sources, but if you have relevant institutional access you might like to track down items on this bibliography of space archaeology. zoharesque.blogspot.com/p/spo.html?m=0
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How might we approach space sites on Earth? First there are research themes or questions. For me, some of these are: 1. How are culture and ideology expressed in the technological style of space places and hardware? #drspacejunk101
Space archaeology research themes 2. How does global (and extra-global) space industry intersect with local communities places, and landscapes? 3. How is the archaeological record of space shaped by colonialism? #drspacejunk101
More research themes: 4. How has access to satellite services changed domestic behaviour? Eg consumption and discard, house layout, movement in space and time. 5. Space and popular culture #drspacejunk101
These are some of the research themes I find interesting, but you might think of more. You could investigate these at the global, national, local, and personal level. #drspacejunk101
In the next few days of our Twitter Space Archaeology course I'll try and think of some good case studies to illustrate all of these. You can think about this too. Of course, there is a sad dearth of space archaeologists on Earth. #drspacejunk101
So there have been very few archaeological studies of space sites on Earth. Most of the work has been heritage studies, which is related but different. One of the earliest was Harry Butowsky's 'Man in Space' report. #drspacejunk101
I've managed to lose the link to this report - but I'm hoping @brewsternorth might have it? #drspacejunk101
Heritage studies are not aimed at answering a research question, although of course there will be a lot of research involved in such a study. Heritage is about assessing cultural significance and mitigating impacts from development. #drspacejunk101
Thank you to @brewsternorth for keeping track of the link to the Butowsky heritage study! If you didn't read it for Module 1, get into it now! #drspacejunk101
So heritage is another huge strand of space archaeology (across the world, heritage professionals are often trained archaeologists). Heritage is about things from the past that people from the present think are important and want to keep for the future #drspacejunk101
A cat (random neighbour's cat that I've dubbed Itty after the cat Dr Dolittle brought back from the Moon) has just jumped on the windowsill and started yelling at me to get up. And it's about hot cross bun time #drspacejunk101
So that's it for today, folks. It's the weekend, although days are all blurring into each other in isolation! Tomorrow it's case study time for space places on Earth. Stay well and say hi to the Moon for me! #drspacejunk101
