Placing Outer Space: An Earthly Ethnography of Other Worlds

by Lisa Messeri

Book Overview

In Placing Outer Space Lisa Messeri traces how the place-making practices of planetary scientists transform the void of space into a cosmos filled with worlds that can be known and explored. Making planets into places is central to the daily practices and professional identities of the astronomers, geologists, and computer scientists Messeri studies. She takes readers to the Mars Desert Research Station and a NASA research center to discuss ways scientists...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0822362031
• ISBN13: 9780822362036
• Release Date: September 2016
• Publisher: Duke University Press
• Length: 248 Pages
• Weight: 0.76 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"