Sherman, StephanieRussell, DonGarvey, DrewBloom, GregLarson, NateMoore, Anne ElizabethSchwartz, TimHarris, ClayBertie, SarahLokoff, AmyRakowsky, EmilyNgo, Huong2015-12-022015-12-022013https://hdl.handle.net/1920/10039Provisional Research is a digital journal publishing the findings of Provisions research projects and residencies. Provisional Research seeks to provide free and accessible public information on creative projects, sharing strategies and practices for social change with an ever-expanding readership.The Case for Space assembled researchers Heidi Neilson (NY), Huong Ngo (NY), Cassie Thornton (CA), and Kate Chandler (DC) in Washington DC to explore the ethos, aesthetics, and ecology of outer space and to creatively consider the role that space programs play in cognitive and spiritual life, social consciousness, and political progress. It proposed such questions as: how does space on a macro and micro level serve as a ground for human identification, relationship, and reflection? How do space technologies, tools, and tactics help us encounter plateaus of the possible? Can the diversity of cosmic orders help us imagine constellations for change here at home?en-USVisual artOuter spaceMars roverNASAApollo IINeil ArmstrongBuzz AldrinStar TrekMae JemisonLieutenant UhuraNichelle NicholsWomen and space travelWomen in space programSally RideMercury SevenAstronautsMarsNational Park ServiceMoonNASA budgetDronesOther