Abstract
This article uses the history of an unrealized technology to rethink conventional accounts of American spaceflight that cast the space cabin as the ultimate expression of human’s capacity to technologically master their environments. Drawing on archival and published sources, I detail the history of the bioregenerative life-support system, a system in which simple organisms most commonly algae would inhabit the spacecraft and, through a series of interspecies symbioses, maintain cabin conditions and sustain astronaut life. By homing in on the maintenance practices of the system and taking seriously the kinds of interspecies possibilities they would have engendered, this account does the work of recovering how the history of American spaceflight as we know it today was not at all inevitable, and in fact it could well have been a thoroughly multispecies affair. At the same time, by offering an exaggerated example of the ways astronauts during space travel were (and are) in
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Freeman and his Revelations Entertainment partner Lori McCreary executive produce the indie film, which follows the final minutes of Kenneth Chamberlain s life before he was killed by police in 2011.
The Killing of Kenneth Chamberlain first premiered at the Austin Film Festival in October 2019; a year and a half later, it is heading to Berlin s European Film Market carrying the weight of 2020 s racial reckoning.
The 80-minute indie, written and directed by David Midell, follows the final moments of Chamberlain s life. He was a 68-year-old Black veteran killed by White Plains, New York police in 2011 after accidentally setting off his medical alert, which escalated to a standoff and officers breaking down Chamberlain s apartment door. He was shot twice in the chest, and no charges were brought against the police in a 2012 jury trial (though a 2020 appeal did rule that a federal judge was wrong to dismiss parts of a lawsuit against the police for excessi