Michael G. Smith

The Spacefaring Earth

A History of the Space Age

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Produktbeschreibung

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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd
• Seitenzahl: 362
• Erscheinungstermin: 4. Dezember 2024
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm
• ISBN-13: 9781032799025
• ISBN-10: 1032799021
• Artikelnr.: 70934216

Autorenporträt

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).

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction Part 1: 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 2: 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 3: 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