A Make-up Kit from the National Air and Space Museum

This chapter explores what a Make-up Kit created for the NASA astronaut programme can illuminate about communities in science and the identities that are possible for those participating in the field. The chapter holds in tension the object itself, its uses (both in practice by astronauts and as a museum object), and the users of the object, in order to productively and queerly explore what it means to construct gender and science in relation to each other.