Impossible archaeologist (space/Everest), space hab consultant, ancient Mediterranean, heritage | Prof at Chapman U | Fellow at USC | Explorers Club 50 | https://issarchaeology.org / http://brickmoonspace.com | He/him | Settler on unceded Tongva land (LA)
Justin Walsh
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In a sense, I see this article as being the one we've done that most clearly shows how an archaeological study of a contemporary site can improve future development. In that sense, it fulfills the promise of ISSAP.
This is the VR movie I'm talking about, but I'm pretty sure she said it in one of the later episodes youtu.be/uU4ma2US5ao?...
Crackhead Larry is okay really, but nobody likes the foreign guy who points
According to our data, MSG was the third-most frequently used facility, with almost 4.6% of all mentions from 2009-2024. When used together with another facility, it was most frequently associated with the Rodent Research Facility.
Today NASA named four skilled astronauts as the #ArtemisIII crew for a test mission in low-Earth orbit, perhaps next year. All four are men, even though NASA has loads of highly qualified women astronauts. It's not a good look for the so-called Artemis generation. 🧪🔭
This shows that NASA is keeping close track of the usage of (at least some facilities). But that data isn't public. So when executives at Sierra Space asked how often ISS facilities were being used, we investigated what public data was available.
It's possibly worth noting, as a postscript, that in the VR film about ISS, Jessica Meir (who is in this video on Instagram) said - and I'm paraphrasing here - that the single test for whether you can be an astronaut should be how well you can work in a glove box in microgravity.
I realize that this research doesn't sound especially archaeological, but to me, it makes sense: archeologists are interested in how the material culture of a site is being used. For Sierra, they wanted to know what facilities their clients would demand for the Orbital Reef station.
Justin Walsh
Justin Walsh
We discovered an archive of over 4,000 daily status reports that described crew activity, including scientific experiments. The ISSAP team scraped the reports, searched for facility names and acronyms, and analyzed the data. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Today the ISS crew recognized that the Microgravity Science Glovebox (MSG) had passed 100,000 hours (more than a year) in service since it was installed in 2002. 🧵
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