Photographs by Dan Boardman and Aspen Mays
206 Full Color Pages
Double Wire-O Bound
Screenprint & Foil Stamp Covers
Insert includes an Appendix & Companion Essay
Edition of 500
First Edition
2016 © Conveyor Editions and Houseboat Press

This multi-part publication is a collection of personal and public archives—family snapshots, candid photographs of the Challenger crew, astronomy plates of Halley’s Comet, and screenshots of video from the Teacher in Space project Lost Lessons. Boardman and Mays use the photographic archive as a device to draw connections between seemingly disparate events—the return of Halley's Comet, the rite of passage of the American road trip, and the Teacher in Space program, which invited the first civilian to leave the Earth. On January 28th 1986, at the launch of Challenger Mission STS-51-L, these seemingly random events aligned, giving way to the parallel histories explored within this book. In piecing together these photographic remains, Dan Boardman and Aspen Mays, visually inquire into which record is the official record.

This book was edited by Christina Labey, and designed by Elana Schlenker. Text companion written by Jeremy Haik. Where We've Been cover screenprinted by Kayrock Screenprinting in Brooklyn, New York. The rest of the book was printed and bound at Conveyor Arts.