In The News

We’ve collected some of our presentations and media coverage of ISSAP that have appeared so far:

• Justin Walsh presented an early conception of our project to an audience at the National Geographic Society in Washington, DC, on 18 November 2016.
• Megan I. Gannon, “What Could Space Archaeologists Tell Us about Astronaut Culture?” on Space.com, 17 July 2017. This article was picked up and re-packaged by Archaeology magazine, Scientific American, NBC News, and Fox News.
• Jason Daley of Smithsonian Magazine added to Megan Gannon’s story.
• CollectSPACE also expanded Megan Gannon’s story.
• On 28 July 2017, Alice Gorman and Justin Walsh participated in the “Day of Archaeology.” We published “Pale Blue Dot: Everyday Material Culture on the International Space Station” and “A Bell in Space.”
• Laura Panjwani, “Archaeologists Investigate Life on the International Space Station” in R+D Magazine, 16 August 2017.
• Australia’s Science Channel featured Dr. Alice Gorman in a video discussing the field of space archaeology, 22 September 2017.

• The anthropology website SAPIENS featured ISSAP in an episode of its podcast, 6 November 2018.
• David Anderson featured our recent grant success in a post on Forbes.com on 3 December 2018.
• We presented “Machine Learning in Space Archaeology” at the Machine Learning in Archaeology conference sponsored by the British School at Rome and hosted at the European Space Agency’s European Space Research Institute in Frascati, Italy, on 8 November 2019.
• Both PI’s made presentations on our work as part of the Space4Women podcast on 18 July 2020.
• Amir Kanan Kashefi presented a paper on data management challenges to the Computer Applications in Archaeology – Australasia conference on 11 September 2020.
• Our project was featured on the Space Australia website in an article by Vanessa Chapman on 14 September 2020.
• Justin Walsh participated in a virtual walkthrough and a conversation with the artists for an exhibition of photos by Paolo Nespoli and Roland Miller at Chapman University in November 2020.

• • The co-PIs wrote an article marking the twentieth anniversary of continuous habitation of ISS for The Conversation on 2 November 2020.
  • Justin Walsh was quoted in the New York Times story on Paolo Nespoli and Roland Miller’s photographs of ISS on 2 November 2020: “’The cultural landscape of the International Space Station is every bit as rich as any terrestrial context an archaeologist might want to study,’ he writes.”
  • Justin Walsh was interviewed about space archaeology and ISSAP by the ArchaeoTech podcast on November 26, 2020.

• Alice Gorman was interviewed about space junk and space archaeology for the Ologies podcast on December 7, 2020.

• The Australian Associated Press picked up the story of our SQuARE experiment on January 18, 2022, and it ran in dozens of papers there, for example, this one
• Space.com ran a profile of ISSAP by Leonard David on January 20, 2022
• NPR also ran a story about SQuARE
• And CBC Radio interviewed Justin Walsh on its flagship current events show, “As It Happens”
• Cosmos magazine ran a profile of us by Jamie Seidel on January 21, 2022
• Robert Pearlman also covered us for CollectSpace
• On March 3, 2022, Justin Walsh presented a survey of our work, including SQuARE, to the Los Angeles and Riverside County local societies of the Archaeological Institute of America

•  Ashley Strickland of CNN wrote a piece about us and the upcoming plans to de-orbit ISS on March 11, 2022: “Capturing the Heritage of the International Space Station before It Crashes into the Ocean.”
• Megan Gannon profiled the SQuARE experiment in Scientific American‘s April 2022 issue: “Space Archaeology Takes Off.”
• Tatyana Woodall covered SQuARE for Popular Science on March 29, 2022: “What an Extraterrestrial Archaeological Dig Can Tell Us about Space Culture.”
• Justin Walsh was interviewed by the Irish national radio program The Moncrieff Show on March 23, 2022 (starts at approximately 1:25:00)
• NASA featured SQuARE in its weekly “Space to Ground” video – in English

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