Space Junk

Space Junk is a new publication examining the cultural intersections space travel and humanity’s relationship with the cosmos through science, art, and speculative fiction. The magazine positions itself both document and provocation — a record of a generation  reimagining the relationship to space. 

In this issue: Pilot

The inaugural issue of Space Junk moves between scientific inquiry, cultural reflection, and speculative narrative. Debris from an early American spacecraft, recovered from a 1970s crash in Western Australia, is revisited through annotated science fiction texts by Charlie Fox. Chris Kraus engages a new generation of trainee astronauts in conversation, and Charlie Duke reflects on his experience of walking on the Moon. The Pilot Issue offers confrontations of inheritance and futurity: what knowledge is carried forward? How might new societies might be structured beyond Earth? Who is shaping the next phase of cosmic exploration.

London, U.K., 24x32cm, 256 pages, Annual