Friday essay: shadows on the Moon - a tale of ephemeral beauty, humans and hubris
- Written by Alice Gorman, Senior Lecturer in Archaeology and Space Studies, Flinders University
A large, sea jelly-like antenna shadow from the Apollo 14 mission in 1971.NASA
Between 1969 and 1972, a new type of archaeological site was created. For the first time, human bodies and the technology needed to sustain them altered the landscape of another world. The astronauts from the six Apollo missions left a suite of space-age artefacts behind...
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