Into the Anthropocosmos: A Whole Space Catalog from the MIT Space Exploration Initiative

A Lavishly Illustrated Catalog Of Space Technology Of The Future: LabTested Devices, Experiments, And Habitats For The Age Of Participatory Space Exploration.As Earthlings, We Stand On The Brink Of A New Age: The AnthropocosmosAn Era Of Space Exploration In Which We Can Expand HumanityS Horizons Beyond Our PlanetS Bounds. And In This New Era, We Have Twin Responsibilities, To Earth And To Space; We Should Neither Abandon Our Own Planet To Environmental Degradation Nor Litter The Galaxy With Space Junk. This Fascinating And Generously Illustrated VolumeDesigned By Mit Media Lab Researcher Sands FishPresents Space Technology For This New Age: Prototypes, Artifacts, Experiments, And Habitats For An Era Of Participatory Space Exploration.These Projects, Developed As Part Of MitS Space Exploration Initiative, Range From Nanoscale Imaging Of Microbes To Responsive, SensorMediated Living Environments. They Show The Usefulness Of A Seahorse Tail For Humans In Microgravity, Document The Promise Of ShapeMemory Alloys For Cubesat InOrbit Maneuvering, And Introduce Tesserae (Tessellated Electromagnetic Space Structures For The Exploration Of Reconfigurable, Adaptive Environments), SelfAssembling Space Architecture. Some Are Ongoing, RealWorld Systems: An Art Payload Sent To The International Space Station Via Space X Crs20, For Example, And A Crowdsourced Interplanetary Cookbook. More Than Forty LargeFormat, Coffee Table BookQuality, FullColor Photographs Make Our Future In Space Seem Palpable. Short Explanatory Texts By Ariel Ekblaw, Astronaut Cady Coleman, And Others Accompany The Images.