Space in the Age of Coronavirus

• Loren Grush, A Rocket Launch Can’t Unite Us Until the Space World Acknowledges Our Divisions, The Verge, June 29, 2020.

• Marina Koren, The False Hope of an American Rocket Launch, The Atlantic, June 3, 2020.

• Miriam Kramer, What Space Means Right Now, Axios, June 2, 2020.

• Ingrid Burrington, Is Going to Space Truly Essential During a Pandemic? Engadget, May 20, 2020.

Decolonizing Space

• Ryan Mandelbaum, Decolonizing Mars: Are We Thinking About Space Exploration All Wrong? November 20, 2018.

• Nadia Drake, We need to change the way we talk about space exploration, National Geographic, November 8, 2018.

• 4 Big Questions About the Race to Mars, TED Fellows blog, April 12, 2016.

Equitable Access to Space

• Alice Gorman, Almost 90% of Astronauts Have Been Men. But the Future of Space May Be Female, The Conversation, June 15, 2020.

• Christina Koch and Jessica Meir, It’s Tough Being Small in a Big-Suit World. We Still Spacewalked, The Washington Post, November 11, 2019.

• Mary Robinette Kowal, If Space is the Future, That Future Needs to Include Everyone, The Washington Post, March 29, 2019.

• Christian Davenport, The Unsung Astronauts, The Washington Post, June 15, 2018.

Satellites, Surveillance, and the Night Sky

• Brian Resnick, The Night Sky is Increasingly Dystopian, Vox, January 29, 2020.

• Sarah Parcak, Are We Ready for Satellites That See Our Every Move? The New York Times, October 15, 2019.

Environment and Land

• Alice Gorman, Can the Moon Be a Person? As Lunar Mining Looms, a Change of Perspective Could Protect Earth’s Ancient Companion, The Conversation, August 26, 2020.

• Christopher Mellon and Yuliya Panfil, Can the U.S. Annex the Moon? Slate, July 8, 2019.

• Lucianne Walkowicz, The Problem With Terraforming Mars: What do we lose if we make the Red Planet hospitable to humans? Slate, Sept 13, 2018.

• Michael Oman-Reagan, Interplanetary Environmentalism (Part 2), SAPIENS, July 14, 2016.

• Michael Oman-Reagan, Interplanetary Environmentalism (Part 1), SAPIENS, June 23, 2016.

• Alice Gorman, Final Frontiers: Space, The Conversation, April 9, 2013.

• Justin Walsh, Review of Beyond Planet Earth: The Future of Space Exploration, exhibition at the American Museum of Natural History, New York, 19 November 2011-12 August 2012, Museum and Society 10.1: 66-68. 2012.

Astrobiology and Planetary Protection

• Keith Cooper. Putting the ethics into planetary protection, Astrobiology Magazine, August 10, 2018.

Living in Space

• Fred Scharmen, What Will Humans Really Need in Space? Slate, June 29, 2019.

• Erika Nesvold. There Will Be Crime in Space, Slate, June 26, 2019.

War and Space

• Lucianne Walkowicz, What Happens in Space Happens on Earth: Trump’s stated desire to create a Space Force has a lot to do with his terrestrial border obsession, Slate, June 22, 2018.

Blogs

• Space + Anthropology, eds. Michael Oman-Reagan & Taylor Genovese.

• The Plutocratic Exit Strategy: Journal of a Cosmic Anthropologist, Pryvt, M1k3y.