To live among the stars: artificial environments in the early space age
| Autor: | Kärin Nickelsen, David P. D. Munns |
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| Rok vydání: | 2017 |
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History of biology
History biology Apollo Shit Environmental ethics 06 humanities and the arts Space (commercial competition) 060202 literary studies biology.organism_classification Object (philosophy) EXPOSE Space Age 060105 history of science technology & medicine History and Philosophy of Science Intersection 0602 languages and literature 0601 history and archaeology |
| Zdroj: | History and Technology. 33:272-299 |
| ISSN: | 1477-2620 0734-1512 |
| DOI: | 10.1080/07341512.2018.1453911 |
| Popis: | Startled by NASA’s decision to let orbiting astronauts collect their own feces in a bag for medical experiments, a pair of sanitary engineers at Berkeley designed an algae-based bio-regenerative system to recycle oxygen, water, and even nutrients. This article explains the technological choice facing the emerging space program between the infamous ‘fecal-bag’ and a now-forgotten alternative, the ‘Algatron’, in the mid-1960s. The article situates the case of the Algatron at the intersection of the history of the space program and the history of biology; it uses the case of the Algatron to expose the different meanings of ‘shit’ as an object of scientific, medical, and engineering study. For nearly a decade after Sputnik, engineers worked under the assumption that human waste was part of a new space ecology, but by the time Neil Armstrong landed on the moon, human excrement had become understood solely as a diseased and disposable medical object to be contained and preserved in a bag. The ecological... |
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