How Elon Musk ‘colonised’ a corner of Texas to build his own space city ► youtube.com/watch?v=OwxlY... The Soviets presented science as a utopian ideal. Thousands of researchers worked in imperfect secrecy on ‘big science’ initiatives, mostly for cold war military objectives. In the 1990s, after the collapse of the Soviet Union, many institutions were left destitute and their advanced technology was doomed to extinction. But some scientists persevered, adapting to the landscape. Today, defying the odds, they persist, even in wartime, continuing their work.
The photographer Eric Lusito takes us on a scientific journey through space and time in a book on Soviet scientific institutes. Soviet Scientific Institutes by Eric Lusito is published by FUEL.
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How Elon Musk ‘colonised’ a corner of Texas to build his own space city ► youtube.com/watch?v=OwxlY...
The Soviets presented science as a utopian ideal. Thousands of researchers worked in imperfect secrecy on ‘big science’ initiatives, mostly for cold war military objectives. In the 1990s, after the collapse of the Soviet Union, many institutions were left destitute and their advanced technology was doomed to extinction. But some scientists persevered, adapting to the landscape. Today, defying the odds, they persist, even in wartime, continuing their work.
The photographer Eric Lusito takes us on a scientific journey through space and time in a book on Soviet scientific institutes. Soviet Scientific Institutes by Eric Lusito is published by FUEL.
Photos by Eric Lusito ► www.theguardian.com/artanddes...
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