Victor Buchli on Life in Low-Earth Orbit

Victor Buchli on Life in Low-Earth Orbit

As an anthropologist, Victor Buchli has one foot in the Neolithic past and another in the space-faring future. A professor of material culture at University College London, his research has taken him from excavations of the New Stone Age site at Çatalhöyük, Turkey to studies of the modern suburbs of London to examinations of life on — and in service to — the International Space Station. It is in that later role, as principal investigator for a E…