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The heavens and the earth : a political history of the space age / Walter A. McDougall.
Author
McDougall, Walter A., 1946-
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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
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Astronautics and state
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United States
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Astronautics and state
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Soviet Union
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Astronautics
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United States
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History
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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.
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ISBN
046502887X
9780465028870
0465028888
9780465028887
LCCN
84045314
OCLC
11468354
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