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Beschreibung
This engaging survey of the Space Age links science and technology with politics and popular culture, war and peace, and crises and controversies. It examines the history of spaceflight as a mirror of human thought and action across the Earth.
This engaging survey of the Space Age links science and technology with politics and popular culture, war and peace, and crises and controversies. It examines the history of spaceflight as a mirror of human thought and action across the Earth.
Über den Autor

Michael G. Smith is Professor of History at Purdue University. He is the author of Rockets and Revolution: A Cultural History of Early Spaceflight (2014) and The Rocket Lab: Maurice Zucrow, Purdue University and America's Race to Space (2023).

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction Part I: The Spaceflight Visionaries 1. Parabola: Picturing the Cosmos 2. Rocket: The Space Pioneers 3. Missile: Rocket States and War 4. Satellite: Strategic Power and Geopolitics Part II: The Space Race 5. Project: Vostok and Mercury in Orbit 6. Terror: The Intercontinental Ballistic Missile Race 7. Rendezvous: Voskhod and Project Gemini 8. Apollo: The Race for the Moon Part III: The Fragile Species 9. Portraits: Our Expanding Universe 10. Bodies: Living and Cooperating in Space 11. Orbits: Planet Earth from Outer Space 12. Thresholds: Shuttles, Star Wars, and Stations. Epilogue A Note on Non-English Sources

Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2024
Fachbereich: Regionalgeschichte
Genre: Geschichte, Importe
Rubrik: Geisteswissenschaften
Medium: Taschenbuch
Inhalt: Einband - flex.(Paperback)
ISBN-13: 9781032780719
ISBN-10: 1032780711
Sprache: Englisch
Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor: Smith, Michael G.
Hersteller: Routledge
Verantwortliche Person für die EU: Taylor & Francis Verlag GmbH, Kaufingerstr. 24, D-80331 München, gpsr@taylorandfrancis.com
Maße: 229 x 152 x 17 mm
Von/Mit: Michael G. Smith
Erscheinungsdatum: 04.12.2024
Gewicht: 0,466 kg
Artikel-ID: 129381920