• Earth Day 2024 – Climate Action & Lunar Exploration

    Virtual Event co-organised with The Human Space Program and Cosmic Citizen Trainings Register https://www.cosmiccitizen.training/space4earth Love it or hate it, a new era of Lunar exploration is here. Join the conversation and influence its unfolding. At the start of this new venture of a permanent presence on the Moon, we aim to stimulate the alliance of […]

  • Cultural Considerations WG webinar – Still as bright

    “Still as Bright blends scientific, cultural and personal strands in an exploration of the Moon and its place in our lives and in mine. I come to know the Moon through my backyard telescope, traversing its wild and sublime surface while contemplating place, time, childhood, mortality—and the future of humans on the Moon. You'll meet […]

  • Cultural WG webinar – Alternative Visions of Space Exploration

    “The most important lesson we learned from our first forays beyond our thin atmosphere was that we are in this together. We overcame gravity by working collectively toward an aligned goal. That same force must now allow us to overcome political and policy differences that are driven by circumstances such as what we look like, […]

  • Cultural Considerations WG webinar – Artists on the Moon: Lessons from an All-Artist Analog Lunar Surface Mission

    The webinar will tell the experience of the four artists who lived a week in The Space Analog for the Moon & Mars at the University of Arizona: the sense of isolation, the difficulties of cohabitation, the simulation of reduced gravity, and the influence that these extreme conditions had on their artistic production. Speakers:Christopher Cokinos, […]

  • Cultural WG webinar – Latin America In Outer Space

    Agenda Registration Speakers Anne W. Johnson is a Professor in the Graduate Social Anthropology Program of the Universidad Iberoamericana in Mexico City, where she teaches classes on science and technology, the anthropology of futures, and material culture. She has a Ph.D. in social anthropology from the University of Texas at Austin. Her publications about outer […]

  • Cultural Considerations WG webinar – Moon: Religion and Ritual

    Since the dawn of time, the Moon has attracted the devoted attention of Earth's inhabitants. It has been attributed divine powers, magical abilities, and significant influences on our daily lives, from bottling wine to sowing seeds to cutting hair. With this webinar, we intend to explore how primitive beliefs led to the Moon being seen […]