Remembering the Space Age: Proceedings of the 50th Anniversary Conference (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781470031800)

This volume is nearly 500 pages and topics covered include: Gigantic Follies? Human Exploration and the Space Age in Long-term Historical Perspective; National Aspirations on a Global Stage: Fifty Years of Spaceflight; Building Space Capability through European Regional Collaboration; Imagining an Aerospace Agency in the Atomic Age; Creating a Memory of the German Rocket Program for the Cold War; Operation Paperclip in Huntsville, Alabama; The Great Leap Upward: China's Human Spaceflight Program and Chinese National Identity; The "Right" Stuff: The Reagan Revolution and the U.S. Space Program; Great (Unfulfilled) Expectations: To Boldly Go Where No Social Scientist and Historian Have Gone Before; Far Out: The Space Age in American Culture; A Second Nature Rising: Spaceflight in an Era of Representation; Creating Memories: Myth, Identity, and Culture in the Russian Space Age; The Music of Memory and Forgetting: Global Echoes of Sputnik 2; From the Cradle to the Grave: Cosmonaut Nostalgia in Soviet and Post-Soviet Film; Discovering the Iconic in Space Exploration Photography; Robert A. Heinlein's Influence on Spaceflight; American Spaceflight History's Master Narrative and the Meaning of Memory; A Melancholic Space Age Anniversary; Has Space Development Made a Difference?; Has There Been a Space Age?; and Cultural Functions of Space Exploration. NASA-SP-2008-4703

Author: Steven J. Dick
ISBN-10: 1470031809
ISBN-13: 9781470031800
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Language: English
Published: 11/18/2009
Pages: 480
Format: Paperback
Weight: 1.47lbs
Size: 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.97d