3 Quotes by Alice Gorman

Despite having had a UN treaty on the peaceful uses of outer space since 1967, youcould say we haven’t yet learnt how to be peaceful in outer space.

Space narratives usually leave out Indigenous people and often ‘non-spacefaring’ nations too – which is a large chunk of the world. We can’t afford to do that any longer, not if we’re truly committed to space being for all humanity.

There are places where litter is acceptable and others where it is not. What is the proper place for space junk? You could say it is the atmosphere: that abandoned satellites and debris should be cremated, ashes to ashes, dust to dust. There’s a contradiction here. We’ve placed junk where it is perpetually ‘out of place’ as a human object, but in another sense, this is its natural place.