Space Exploration in the New Space Age

Beyond The Cradle 2018: A Recap

On Saturday, MIT Media Lab hosted the second Beyond The Cradle event, organized through the new Space Exploration initiative founded by Ariel Ekblaw. I had the privilege of attending as a panel moderator for the breakout workshop session: “The body in Space: From fashion to augmentation,” with Andrea Lauer, Xin Liu, and Viktoria Modesta. What I found exceptional about the event overall, was the amount of time and care that was put in to addressing the more human aspect of space exploration. There was an equal…