Australia and Space: Government policy and public imagination, 1957 – 2021

该项目旨在成为第一个研究澳大利亚从1957年太空时代开始到今天在公众和政府层面如何接近太空的研究。该项目采用历史方法，采用创新的框架，整合了澳大利亚不同的空间活动，分析了长期以来澳大利亚的空间，并将澳大利亚的经验集中在全球背景下。该项目恰逢澳大利亚航天局于2018年年中成立。通过出版物以及与空间学者和利益攸关方的合作，该项目旨在为空间政策和国际空间合作的讨论提供信息，并对澳大利亚人如何参与空间活动产生新的理解。

This project aims to be the first study to address how Australia has approached space at the public and government level from the dawn of the space age in 1957 to today. Taking a historical approach, this project employs an innovative framework that integrates Australia’s disparate space activities, analyses Australian space over a long time period, and centres the Australian experience within the global context. The project is particularly timely with creation of the Australian Space Agency in mid-2018. Through publications and collaboration with space scholars and stakeholders, this project aims to inform discussion of space policy and international cooperation in space, and develop new understandings of how Australians engage with space.