Northumbria PhD researcher Daniel Walsh discusses his research on the development of Spaceports.

Paul Dolan, Peter Howson & Lauren Napier

Extraterritorial is a colour and infrared photographic series shot in the US and Scotland between 2023-24, documenting the building of privately funded rocket launch facilities within the NewSpace industries. 

June 2024 | Deceleration

SpaceX continues missions to space while poisoning sacred and environmentally sensitive lands.

February 2024 | Jacobin

Texas start-up Intuitive Machines has achieved the first moon landing by a private firm. But the value of going to the moon for all mankind is not at all clear. 

Space Assembly: The Cultural Negotiation of Space Science was a two-day event hosted by Northumbria University’s ‘Space’ Interdisciplinary Research Theme (IDRT), scheduled as part of the festival programme, Institutional Fieldworking: CNoS@10, marking the tenth anniversary of The Cultural Negotiation of Science (CNoS) research group in November/December 2023. The event offered an exploration of 1) cultural/civic perspectives on Space Science and how they intersect, influence, challenge and contribute to the work being carried out in techno-scientific fields and 2) new perspectives and methods of working between disciplinary cultures.

September 2023 | The Herald 

Fairytale promises of jobs in space whilst selling Scotland’s natural heritage off for cheap as a firing range, will end in the wrong kind of fireworks.   

May 2023 | Thomson Reuters

Like the colonial conquests of the past, in today’s space race, indigenous people are losing their land and identities