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DOI	10.1080/14650045.2019.1569631
	Spaceport America: Contested Offworld Access and the Everyman Astronaut
	Sammler, Katherine G.; Lynch, Casey R.
通讯作者	Lynch, CR (corresponding author), Univ Arizona, Sch Geog & Dev, POB 210137, Tucson, AZ 85721 USA.
来源期刊	GEOPOLITICS
ISSN	1465-0045
EISSN	1557-3028
出版年	2021
卷号	26 期号:3 页码:704-728
英文摘要	Spaceport America, a spectacle to see with curvilinear geometry that itself looks like a spacecraft rising out of the desert near Truth or Consequences, New Mexico, conveys a hope of the everyman astronaut. Yet this private-public project, spending over $200 million in state taxpayer money to build and with a $2.85 million operating budget for 2017, does not provide the vertical transport analog of an airport. As Virgin Galactic stalls in launching its astronomically-priced zero-gravity music festival and commercial passenger flights, the facilities have been dusted off for educational rocketry club launches and Hollywood film backdrops while most public access to the grounds is restricted to expensive guided tours. As with the Spaceport, access to outer space itself raises questions of public versus private ownership and exclusivity. With the shifting role of nation states in offplanet activity, there are openings for outer space to become another site of capital accumulation or to manifest as envisioned by social movements and community space programs. This paper traces the ongoing realignment of public and private interests in offworld activity, of which Spaceport America is representative, considering how notions of offworld access have evolved since the aspirational vision of space as a commons laid out in the 1967 UN Outer Space Treaty. The paper juxtaposes the emerging public-private hegemony with the actions of three autonomous space organizations that actively construct alternative political economic models, technological systems, and cultural imaginaries of offworld access.
类型	Article
语种	英语
开放获取类型	Green Submitted, Green Published
收录类别	SSCI
WOS记录号	WOS:000641305900003
WOS类目	Geography ; Political Science
WOS研究方向	Geography ; Government & Law
来源机构	University of Arizona
资源类型	期刊论文
条目标识符	http://119.78.100.177/qdio/handle/2XILL650/350427
作者单位	[Sammler, Katherine G.] Calif State Univ Vallejo, Maritime Acad, Global Studies & Maritime Affairs, Vallejo, CA USA; [Lynch, Casey R.] Univ Arizona, Sch Geog & Dev, POB 210137, Tucson, AZ 85721 USA
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Sammler, Katherine G.,Lynch, Casey R.. Spaceport America: Contested Offworld Access and the Everyman Astronaut[J]. University of Arizona,2021,26(3):704-728.
APA	Sammler, Katherine G.,&Lynch, Casey R..(2021).Spaceport America: Contested Offworld Access and the Everyman Astronaut.GEOPOLITICS,26(3),704-728.
MLA	Sammler, Katherine G.,et al."Spaceport America: Contested Offworld Access and the Everyman Astronaut".GEOPOLITICS 26.3(2021):704-728.