Space Porn. Mediating the Apollo-Soyuz Test Project
Space Porn. Mediating the Apollo-Soyuz Test Project
Abstract
The article uses several examples to show how, during and through the media coverage of the Apollo-Soyuz Test Project, the political efforts to demonstrate technical and political cooperation between the USA and the USSR were not only transported to earth, but meanwhile also underwent a massive transformation. Based on the theoretical figure of the third according to Georg Simmel and their interpretation as mediators for a global audience, two examples will be spelled out in more detail. The first is about the reporting in the Playboy magazine, in which the Apollo-Soyuz Test Project is reinterpreted and demonstrated as a very special sexual act. The second is a closer look at how space is conceptualised as domesticated space in the Soviet design of the space capsules. Since then, even after the collapse of the Eastern Bloc until today, space has often been staged as a place down on earth.
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Apollo-Soyuz Test ProjectUSAUSSR