![]() While we were waiting to hear the results, CASIS reached out to us in February 2021, wanting to know if there was a part of our proposal that could be done immediately, without having to fly any equipment or samples. We also started identifying collaborators from a wide range of fields: sociology, design anthropology, industrial engineering, aerosol science, soil science, and architectural design.īy December 2020, we submitted a funding proposal to the National Science Foundation for support of seven different experiments that would ask crew to perform various activities, from swabbing surfaces, to recording sound, to making videos discussing their experiences. I read it and it is so important and yet so simple I want to laugh.” Unfortunately, they could not fund us beyond the allocations of time and launch/return, so that left us looking elsewhere for money to buy equipment and study any returned samples. To our surprise, their reaction to our initial proposal was immediately enthusiastic: “Looks great. We suggested a series of experiments that ISS crew could perform. CASIS has allocations of launch and return capabilities to the ISS, as well as crew time, which it gives to researchers for their work. ![]() In 2018, we met with folks from the Center for Advancement of Science in Space ( CASIS), a non-profit organization chartered by the US Congress to manage external research on the ISS, in what is called the ISS National Laboratory. For that, we’d need the crew to take on the role of archaeologists. So we also started to think about how we could get documentation the way that archaeologists would do it, focusing on in-person site documentation. But these photos weren’t taken systematically, and they weren’t taken with our needs in mind. We’ve already published a couple of articles on our blog and in peer-reviewed journals, like this one and this one, about some of them. There’s lots of it – tens of thousands of images (a fair amount of them publicly available) showing most aspects of the crew’s lives. We’ve made photography a key element of our work. And little by little, we’ve been honing our techniques, and putting them into practice, seeing what works and what doesn’t (and what’s feasible and what isn’t). ![]() ![]() We had to be creative, because we aren’t allowed to visit the ISS ourselves, the way we would visit a terrestrial archaeological site to study it. The second-ever email about what would become ISSAP! The last item reads, “In-person site documentation of ISS (sounds, smells, tastes, sense of space/dimensions, climate, relationship to Earth)?” From the very beginning, we’ve been trying to think creatively about how we could capture data to help us understand the International Space Station from an archaeological perspective. We’ve been working on this project since December 2015. At 1410 GMT, NASA astronaut Kayla Barron set up an experiment consisting of six sample areas in as many modules that will be documented by the crew for us every day for the next 60 days.īefore we explain the experiment in detail, first a little background. We are extremely excited and proud to announce that the first archaeological study ever performed outside the Earth began today, January 14, 2022. ![]()
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