Dr Space Junk vs the Universe by Gorman, Alice -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

Index

Cover Dedication Title Page Copyright Contents Foreword Acknowledgments Introduction: Looking Up, Looking Down

On Earth as it is in heaven A new era of space Dr Space Junk’s tour of the solar system

Chapter 1: How I Became A Space Archaeologist

Outback and out of this world The Moon in the living room Venus in glasses Archaeology or astrophysics? Back to the past Stories from stone Lying in the gutter, looking up at the stars Launching into orbit

Chapter 2: Journey Into Space

1940s: a rocket and a bomb 1950s: waging peace in the Cold War 1960s: and all I got was this lousy dust 1970s: the backyard satellite 1980s: aiming for the planet of love 1990s: if Versace were to design a satellite 2000s: a tale of two Rosetta stones 2010s: the Starman cometh The phases of the Space Age

Chapter 3: Space Archaeology Begins On Earth

The Cold War stayed for dinner A space for children The rocket park comes Down Under The ultimate rocket playground Cold War in the desert heat How to forget your own Space Age Valley of the cable ties Artefact of the Space Age – or rubbish? The story of a space age object

Chapter 4: Junkyard Earth

One thousand elephants orbiting the earth The cane toads of space The cosmos in our backyard Environmental management in space What is dead can never die ‘And warm with human love the chill of space’

Chapter 5: Shadows On The Moon

When birds migrated to the Moon The children’s Moon The Moon of science or the Moon of lovers? The future of the lunar past An ephemeral archaeology A descent into darkness Shadows and dust The many-coloured Moon

Chapter 6: The Edge of Known Space

The new worlds The archaeology of not-quite-there The ghost in the machine The place defined by wind Beyond the morning star

Chapter 7: Whose Space Is It Anyway?

The ‘sweet poison of the false infinite’ Exteriores spatium nullius Who has the rights to space? A planet by any other name Reflecting Earth in space Contested territories Lines on a map

Chapter 8: Future Archaeology

True infinite The body in the machine Space marked by death When life means gravity The abandoned solar system The Small Dance

Selected References Index