I am currently working on a unit of work for space - connected to Samantha Harvey's Booker Prize winning 'Orbital'. I am hoping to teach it for the first time next week with Year 6.
I was doing some searching and came across a book by Daisy Atterbury.
It is reviewed here. Another view is here.
Atterbury’s book is at once a math-inflected lyric essay; a rollicking road trip; a field guide to Spaceport America, the world’s first site for commercial space travel, located near Truth or Consequences, New Mexico; and a collection of intimate poems.”
The Paris Review
Above the Kármán Line–the edge between earth and outer space–air is too thin to be turned into property. Space there is “free,” untethered from the territorial logic of the nation state.
Extract
The Kármán line is the altitude at which the earth
ends and space begins
It’s the edge of space, as opposed to “near space,”
which is the high-altitude region of the earth’s
atmosphere
This is of course distinct from the boundary of the
universe, or the observable universe
When we say altitude, we mean we’re thinking in
terms of the human, because we’re considering what
is measurable from us
I shall look out for a copy...
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