Space And The American Imagination, (NASA-CR-196131), 31 May 1994
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Scientific and Technical Aerospace Reports
Title | Scientific and Technical Aerospace Reports PDF eBook |
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Pages | 328 |
Release | 1994 |
Genre | Aeronautics |
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Space and the American Imagination
Title | Space and the American Imagination PDF eBook |
Author | Howard E. McCurdy |
Publisher | JHU Press |
Pages | 408 |
Release | 2011-03 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 0801898684 |
People dreamed of cosmic exploration—winged spaceships and lunar voyages; space stations and robot astronauts—long before it actually happened. Space and the American Imagination traces the emergence of space travel in the popular mind, its expression in science fiction, and its influence on national space programs. Space exploration dramatically illustrates the power of imagination. Howard E. McCurdy shows how that power inspired people to attempt what they once deemed impossible. In a mere half-century since the launch of the first Earth-orbiting satellite in 1957, humans achieved much of what they had once only read about in the fiction of Jules Verne and H. G. Wells and the nonfiction of Willy Ley. Reaching these goals, however, required broad-based support, and McCurdy examines how advocates employed familiar metaphors to excite interest (promising, for example, that space exploration would recreate the American frontier experience) and prepare the public for daring missions into space. When unexpected realities and harsh obstacles threatened their progress, the space community intensified efforts to make their wildest dreams come true. This lively and important work remains relevant given contemporary questions about future plans at NASA. Fully revised and updated since its original publication in 1997, Space and the American Imagination includes a reworked introduction and conclusion and new chapters on robotics and space commerce.
Space and the American Imagination
Title | Space and the American Imagination PDF eBook |
Author | National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) |
Publisher | Createspace Independent Publishing Platform |
Pages | 70 |
Release | 2018-07-10 |
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ISBN | 9781722750831 |
The introduction will set out the principal theme of the book: that the rise of the U.S. space program was due to a concerted effort by science writers, engineers, industrialists, and civic and political leaders to create a popular culture of space exploration based on important elements of American social life (such as frontier mythology, fears about the cold war, and the rise of the consumer culture). Much of the disillusionment with the NASA space program which set in during the third decade of space flight can be traced to a widening gap between popular expectations and the reality of space exploration. Mccurdy, Howard E. Unspecified Center...
Government Reports Announcements & Index
Title | Government Reports Announcements & Index PDF eBook |
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Pages | 928 |
Release | 1994-11 |
Genre | Science |
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The Influence of Space on the American Imagination
Title | The Influence of Space on the American Imagination PDF eBook |
Author | Gay Wilson Allen |
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Pages | 342 |
Release | 1967 |
Genre | Space in literature |
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Government Reports Annual Index
Title | Government Reports Annual Index PDF eBook |
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Pages | 1220 |
Release | 1994 |
Genre | Government reports announcements & index |
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