Inventing the American Astronaut by Hersch, Matthew H.

Inventing the American Astronaut (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9781137025272)

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Inventing the American Astronaut by Hersch, Matthew H.

Inventing the American Astronaut

$54.99
Inventing the American Astronaut by Hersch, Matthew H.

Inventing the American Astronaut

$54.99
Format: Hardcover
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Who were the men who led America's first expeditions into space? Soldiers? Daredevils? The public sometimes imagined them that way: heroic military men and hot-shot pilots without the capacity for doubt, fear, or worry. However, early astronauts were hard-working and determined professionals - 'organization men' - who were calm, calculating, and highly attuned to the politics and celebrity of the Space Race. Many would have been at home in corporate America - and until the first rockets carried humans into space, some seemed to be headed there. Instead, they strapped themselves to missiles and blasted skyward, returning with a smile and an inspiring word for the press. From the early days of Project Mercury to the last moon landing, this lively history demystifies the American astronaut while revealing the warring personalities, raw ambition, and complex motives of the men who were the public face of the space program.

Author: Matthew H. Hersch
ISBN-10: 1137025271
ISBN-13: 9781137025272
Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
Language: English
Published: 10/01/2012
Pages: 219
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.10lbs
Size: 9.30h x 6.10w x 0.70d

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Choice 06/01/2013
By Matthew H. Hersch
By Matthew H. Hersch
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MATTHEW H. HERSCH is a Lecturer in Science, Technology and Society in the Department of History and Sociology of Science at the University of Pennsylvania, USA, where he received his PhD. During his doctoral studies, he held a HSS-NASA Fellowship in the History of Space Science and a Guggenheim Fellowship at the Smithsonian Institution's National Air and Space Museum, and most recently served as the postdoctoral teaching fellow for the Aerospace History Project of the Huntington-USC Institute on California and the West.

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