Remembering the space age / Steven J. Dick, editor.

Format:

Book

Government document

Contributor:

Dick, Steven J.

Series:

NASA SP (Series) ; 2008-4703.

NASA SP (Series)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Astronautics--History--20th century.

Astronautics.

History.

Physical Description:

xiii, 465 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 25 cm.

Place of Publication:

Washington, DC : National Aeronautics and Space Administration, Office of External Relations, History Division, 2008.

Summary:

From the Publisher: Proceedings of October 2007 conference, sponsored by the NASA History Division and the National Air and Space Museum, to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the Sputnik 1 launch in October 1957 and the dawn of the space age.

Contents:

Acknowledgments

Introduction

Part 1: National And Global Dimensions Of The Space Age

1: Gigantic follies? human exploration and the space age in long-term historical perspective / J R McNeill

2: Space in the national imagination / Asif A Siddiqi

3: Building space capability through European regional collaboration / John Krige

4: Imagining an aerospace agency in the atomic age / Robert R MacGregor

5: Creating a memory of the German Rocket Program for the Cold War / Michael J Neufeld

6: Operation Paperclip in Huntsville, Alabama / Monique Laney

7: Great leap upward: China's human spaceflight program and Chinese national identity / James R Hansen

8: Right stuff: the Reagan revolution and the U.S. space program / Andrew J Butrica

9: Great (unfulfilled) expectations: to boldly go where no social scientist and historian have gone before / Jonathan Coopersmith

Part 2: Remembrance And Cultural Representation Of The Space Age

10: Far out: the space age in American culture / Emily Rosenberg

11: Second nature rising: spaceflight in an era of representation / Martin Collins

12: Creating memories: myth, identity, and culture in the Russian space age / Slava Gerovitch

13: Music of memory and forgetting: global echoes of Sputnik 2 / Amy Nelson

14: From the cradle to the grave: Cosmonaut Nostalgia in Soviet and post-Soviet film / Cathy Lewis

15: Examining the iconic and rediscovering the photography of space exploration in context to the history of photography / Michael Soluri

16: Robert A Heinlein's influence on spaceflight / Robert G Kennedy III

17: American spaceflight history's master narrative and the meaning of memory / Roger D Launius

Part 3: Reflections On The Space Age

18: Melancholic space age anniversary / Walter A McDougall

19: Has space development made a difference? / John Logsdon

20: Has there been a space age? / Sylvia Kraemer

21: Cultural functions of space exploration / Linda Billings

About the authors

Acronyms and abbreviations

NASA history series

Index.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780160817236

0160817234

OCLC:

226966609