Menu Close
The Conversation

Articles on Space heritage

Displaying all articles
Parts of the Apollo missions remain on the Moon, here you can see one of the legs of the base of the lunar landing module. NASA

We need to protect the heritage of the Apollo missions

Alice Gorman, Flinders University

Just 12 people stepped on the Moon during the Apollo missions, but they left more than just footprints. It’s a legacy that needs protecting from damage by any future Moon missions.
The Telstar 1 satellite inspired a chart-topping pop tune, the iconic black-and-white hexagonal Adidas soccer ball, and maybe even a Doctor Who creature, the Mecanoids. National Physical Laboratory

Trash or treasure? A lot of space debris is junk, but some is precious heritage

Alice Gorman, Flinders University

Protecting culturally significant spacecraft enables people on Earth to feel connected to space as the common heritage of humanity.

Related Topics

  1. IAC2017
  2. Lunar mining
  3. Moon
  4. Moon landings
  5. Satellites
  6. Space debris
  7. Space junk
  8. Space mining
  9. Space travel
  10. To the moon and beyond

Top contributors