Abstract

Examining the feat of maintaining life in orbit draws a sharp focus to the relationship between the human body and its environment, the porous and circulatory matter that blurs any boundaries between habitat and habitant. These intimate, engineered spaces evoke a microcosm of urgent planetary concerns surrounding air and water resources, and waste capture, storage, and elimination. The Space Poop zine explores NASA’s management of biological operations and discharge wastes in low gravity environments. Without strong gravitational fields, materials coalesce at the location they are created, instead of flowing down and away. Exploring ‘retrograde’ menstruation, space gynecology, ‘fecal popcorning’ and NASA’s “Space Poop Challenge” through feminist queer and disability theory, new materialism, and discard studies, this zine invites you to sing along, draw your own Apollo ‘escapees’ comics, decipher the defecation bag, and learn to talk shit in the languages of the International Space Station.

Printing

Print on A4, double-sided with short-edge fold setting.