David Jeevendrampillai is an anthropologist of outer space. His interests include the politics of place and belonging, community, the future, technology and modernity, the body, and late liberalism. He is a lecturer at the University of Manchester. Perig Pitrou is an anthropologist and senior researcher at the CNRS, at the Maison Française d’Oxford and the at the Collège de France where he leads the team Anthropology of Life. Delphine Mercier is curator of the University College London Ethnography Collections. Victor Buchli is a professor of material culture at University College London. He was Principal Investigator of the European Research Council-funded project “ETHNO-ISS: an ethnography of an extraterrestrial society: The international space station.” Istvan Praet;is an anthropologist based at Durham University, UK.

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• Contents List of FiguresEditor BiographiesAcknowledgements ForewordSamantha Cristoforetti  Introduction: A Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Social Studies of Outer SpaceDavid Jeevendrampillai and Perig Pitrou A Curatorial NoteDelphine Mercier TERRITORIES Territories: Outer Space as the Other PlaceDavid (Jeeva) JeevendrampillaiThinking with AtlasesTeresa CastroThe Geopolitical Economy of Space MiningRory RowanOuter Space in the South African KarooDavide ChinigòStories from an Alaskan Space Port: Local Issues at a Gateway to SpaceMia M. BennettMartian Picnic: Report from an Artist-in-Residence on the Uk’s First Analogue Space Research MissionSarah FortaisOuter Space DriftworkNigel Clark and Bronislaw SzerszynskiTerritory in Space LawAlban Guyomarc’hMeet the Atlas of Our AgeJulie Michelle Klinger and Romain RichaudNo Politics in SpaceTim CorballisHe Moʻolelo no ke: A Conundrum of HubrisKalei NuʻUhiwa LIFELife, Reconfigured: Seedling BiospheresIstvan PraetThe High-Tech Spaceships of Earth’s DesertsElie DanzigerBiosocial Rhythms, or What Time Is It on Mars?: Behavioural Neurogenetics and Extraterrestrial CafésAaron ParkhurstAscensionsLuis A. CamposThe Scales of Plant Experiments in Low Earth OrbitPaola CastañoRobots, Artificial Intelligence and SpaceJoffrey BeckerBeyond the Biosphere as SystemValerie Olson (in Conversation with Istvan Praet)Circular Aquaculture and Food Security: From Earth-Based Systems to Lunar BasesCyrille PrzybylaVoyage to CoronaFederico de MussoNo Longer Human? Evolutionary Considerations for Outer SpaceKathleen BrysonThe Mars JarJordan Bimm INFRASTRUCTURESInfrastructures of Daily Life and OuterspaceVictor BuchliAffordance Futurism: Envisioning Orbital InfrastructuresWilliam Stewart in Collaboration with Artist Mary YacoobSpace Wrench: A Starting Point for Off-Earth Manufacturing and Scalable InfrastructureJane DaviesPreparing Internet Infrastructure for the Next ‘Solar Storm'A. R. E. TaylorBringing the Future Down to Earth: An Oral History of Cimon, the First Artificial Intelligence Created for Low Earth OrbitPepijn DerooStories from the Edge of the UniverseMakar TereshinBlockchain in Low Earth OrbitJohn C. VernaleoWhy Before How: Crafting Better Futures Using SpaceLynn D. HarperHow to Collect Micrometeorites in Your YardTravis M. Harper and Lynn D. HarperPhoton Infrastructures: Mediating the Universe Through AstronomyPaddy EdgelyOn the Road to Terra Nullius?Matjaz VidmarTITLEGeorge Henry Longly COSMOLOGIESCosmologies in the Big PicturePerig PitrouA Dialectical Cosmogram: Caetano Veloso in Jail and in OrbitJohn TreschCosmo-Logics: Exploring the Imaginal Terrain of Outer and Inner SpaceNicholas CampionMaking the Cosmos at HomeCatriona HowieSaints and CosmonautsJenia GorbanenkoAstronomy, Religiosity and Navigating Different CosmologiesLauren ReidColumbus and European CosmologyGiles BunchTranshabiting Mars: From Mexico to the Red Planet in a Speculative KeyAnne W. JohnsonCelestial BuddhaFabio GygiPlacing Stars in Urban JejuHae-Seo KimThe Kumulipo, a Cosmogony Prayer to Sanctify ChiefsKalei NuʻUhiwa

David Jeevendrampillai is an anthropologist of outer space. His interests include the politics of place and belonging, community, the future, technology and modernity, the body, and late liberalism. He is a lecturer at the University of Manchester. Perig Pitrou is an anthropologist and senior researcher at the CNRS, at the Maison Française d’Oxford and the at the Collège de France where he leads the team Anthropology of Life. Delphine Mercier is curator of the University College London Ethnography Collections. Victor Buchli is a professor of material culture at University College London. He was Principal Investigator of the European Research Council-funded project “ETHNO-ISS: an ethnography of an extraterrestrial society: The international space station.” Istvan Praet;is an anthropologist based at Durham University, UK.

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• Contents List of FiguresEditor BiographiesAcknowledgements ForewordSamantha Cristoforetti  Introduction: A Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Social Studies of Outer SpaceDavid Jeevendrampillai and Perig Pitrou A Curatorial NoteDelphine Mercier TERRITORIES Territories: Outer Space as the Other PlaceDavid (Jeeva) JeevendrampillaiThinking with AtlasesTeresa CastroThe Geopolitical Economy of Space MiningRory RowanOuter Space in the South African KarooDavide ChinigòStories from an Alaskan Space Port: Local Issues at a Gateway to SpaceMia M. BennettMartian Picnic: Report from an Artist-in-Residence on the Uk’s First Analogue Space Research MissionSarah FortaisOuter Space DriftworkNigel Clark and Bronislaw SzerszynskiTerritory in Space LawAlban Guyomarc’hMeet the Atlas of Our AgeJulie Michelle Klinger and Romain RichaudNo Politics in SpaceTim CorballisHe Moʻolelo no ke: A Conundrum of HubrisKalei NuʻUhiwa LIFELife, Reconfigured: Seedling BiospheresIstvan PraetThe High-Tech Spaceships of Earth’s DesertsElie DanzigerBiosocial Rhythms, or What Time Is It on Mars?: Behavioural Neurogenetics and Extraterrestrial CafésAaron ParkhurstAscensionsLuis A. CamposThe Scales of Plant Experiments in Low Earth OrbitPaola CastañoRobots, Artificial Intelligence and SpaceJoffrey BeckerBeyond the Biosphere as SystemValerie Olson (in Conversation with Istvan Praet)Circular Aquaculture and Food Security: From Earth-Based Systems to Lunar BasesCyrille PrzybylaVoyage to CoronaFederico de MussoNo Longer Human? Evolutionary Considerations for Outer SpaceKathleen BrysonThe Mars JarJordan Bimm INFRASTRUCTURESInfrastructures of Daily Life and OuterspaceVictor BuchliAffordance Futurism: Envisioning Orbital InfrastructuresWilliam Stewart in Collaboration with Artist Mary YacoobSpace Wrench: A Starting Point for Off-Earth Manufacturing and Scalable InfrastructureJane DaviesPreparing Internet Infrastructure for the Next ‘Solar Storm'A. R. E. TaylorBringing the Future Down to Earth: An Oral History of Cimon, the First Artificial Intelligence Created for Low Earth OrbitPepijn DerooStories from the Edge of the UniverseMakar TereshinBlockchain in Low Earth OrbitJohn C. VernaleoWhy Before How: Crafting Better Futures Using SpaceLynn D. HarperHow to Collect Micrometeorites in Your YardTravis M. Harper and Lynn D. HarperPhoton Infrastructures: Mediating the Universe Through AstronomyPaddy EdgelyOn the Road to Terra Nullius?Matjaz VidmarTITLEGeorge Henry Longly COSMOLOGIESCosmologies in the Big PicturePerig PitrouA Dialectical Cosmogram: Caetano Veloso in Jail and in OrbitJohn TreschCosmo-Logics: Exploring the Imaginal Terrain of Outer and Inner SpaceNicholas CampionMaking the Cosmos at HomeCatriona HowieSaints and CosmonautsJenia GorbanenkoAstronomy, Religiosity and Navigating Different CosmologiesLauren ReidColumbus and European CosmologyGiles BunchTranshabiting Mars: From Mexico to the Red Planet in a Speculative KeyAnne W. JohnsonCelestial BuddhaFabio GygiPlacing Stars in Urban JejuHae-Seo KimThe Kumulipo, a Cosmogony Prayer to Sanctify ChiefsKalei NuʻUhiwa