The heavens and the earth : a political history of the space age / Walter A. McDougall.

Author
McDougall, Walter A., 1946- [Browse]
Format
Book
Language
English
Published/​Created
  • New York : Basic Books, Inc., Publishers, [1985]
  • ©1985
Description
xviii, 555 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm

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Engineering Library - Stacks TL789.8.U5 M34 1985 Browse related items Request
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      Summary note
      Chronicles the political history of the space race, from its nineteenth-century beginnings with the rocketry pioneers to the Cold War competition, in which space became another area embraced by the U.S. and U.S.S.R.
      Notes
      Includes index.
      Bibliographic references
      Bibliography: p. [466]-536.
      Contents
      • PART I The Genesis of Sputnik
      • Chapter 1 The Human Seed and Social Soil: Rocketry and Revolution
      • CHAPTER 2 Political Rains and First Fruit:The Cold War and Sputnik -Conclusion
      • PART II Modern Arms and Free Men: America Before Sputnik
      • CHAPTER 3 Bashful Behemoth: Technology, the State, and the Birth of Deterrence
      • CHAPTER 4 While Waiting for Technocracy: The ICBM and the First American Space Program
      • CHAPTER 5 The Satellite Decision
      • Conclusion.
      • PART III Vanguard and Rearguard: Eisenhower and the Setting of American Space Policy
      • CHAPTER 6 "A New Era of History" and a Media Riot
      • CHAPTER 7 The Birth of NASA
      • CHAPTER 8 A Space Strategy for the United States
      • CHAPTER 9 Sparrow in the Falcon's Nest
      • CHAPTER 10 The Shape of Things to Come
      • PART IV Parabolic Ballad: Khrushchev and the Setting of Soviet Space Policy
      • CHAPTER 11 Party Line
      • CHAPTER 12 The Missile Bluff
      • CHAPTER 13 Hammers or Sickles in Space?
      • CHAPTER 14 Space Age Communism: The Khrushchevian Synthesis
      • Conclusion
      • PART V Kennedy, Johnson, and the Technocratic Temptation
      • CHAPTER 15 Destination Moon
      • CHAPTER 16 Hooded Falcons: Space Technology and assured Destruction
      • CHAPTER 17 Benign Hypocrisy: American Space Diplomacy
      • CHAPTER 18 Big Operator: James Webb's Space Age America
      • CHAPTER 19 Second Thoughts
      • PART VI The Heavens and the Earth: The First Twenty-five Years
      • CHAPTER 20 Voyages to Tsiolkovskia
      • CHAPTER 21 The Quest for a G.O.D.
      • CHAPTER 22 A Fire in the Sun.
      ISBN
      • 046502887X
      • 9780465028870
      • 0465028888
      • 9780465028887
      LCCN
      84045314
      OCLC
      11468354
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