Education never occurs disconnected from its contexts. We live in an era of increasingly frequent and noticeable risks of environmental disasters. And we also live in an era of great expectations in space exploration. The New Space era is both the effort to produce technologies for exploring new horizons and the effort to produce new tools to address everyday problems on Earth. To analyze these two contexts, we developed a case study of an environmental disaster that occurred in Brazil. We created a map based on Bruno Latour's actor-network theory to understand the relationships between the different actors (human and nonhuman) during the disaster studied. Using this map, we discuss how contemporary education establishes relationships with the space sector, with the new space being the provider of the vehicle to other realities and the grounding tool to address (or solve) earthly problems.
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