Wired Magazine: Pooping on the Moon Is a Messy Business

2024 Expert, interviewed for article: Pooping on the Moon Is a Messy Business by B. Ferreira. Wired magazine, 25 Jun.

“We are this multiplicity,” says Katherine Sammler, a human geographer at the University of Twente in the Netherlands, who has written about waste management in space through the lens of critical social theory. “We bring with us nonhuman passengers, like microbes and bacteria, as well as our own bodies and the things that go in and out of them. We have to think about the passengers that come with us and their experience of gravity and radiation on the moon.” The bags of waste would be rich sites for doing research, she adds. “What’s there? What’s left?”