A group of researchers have launched the first-ever archeological study of humans in space, observing the lives of the crew living on the International Space Station.
The experiment, which will analyze and document the unique “microsociety in a miniworld,” began this week with associate professors Alice Gorman from Flinders University in Australia and Justin Walsh of Chapman University in California leading the effort.
“We’re the first to try to understand how humans relate to the items they live with in space,” Walsh said in a statement
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