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" Inventing the American astronaut / "
by Matthew H. Hersch
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BL
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641600
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| Main Entry
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Hersch, Matthew H
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| Title & Author
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Inventing the American astronaut /\ by Matthew H. Hersch
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| Edition Statement
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1st ed
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| Publication Statement
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New York :: Palgrave Macmillan,, 2012
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Palgrave studies in the history of science and technology
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xiii, 219 p. :: ill. ;; 25 cm
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9781137025272
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: 1137025271
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: 9781137025289
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: 113702528X
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [203] -212) and index
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| Contents
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"Project astronaut" -- "Deke's boys" -- Scientists in space -- The man in the gray flannel spacesuit -- Public space
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Who were the men who led America's first voyages into space? Were they soldiers or daredevils? The public sometimes imagined them that way: military men or hot-shot pilots without the capacity for doubt, fear, or worry. Instead, the early astronauts were something else: a new kind of "organization man," calm, calculating, and attuned to the politics and celebrity of the space race. Through archival documents, popular culture, and interviews with the astronauts themselves, the book examines the origins of a new American profession and follows it through the last Moon landing and the creation of the space shuttle
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Astronauts-- United States
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Manned space flight-- History
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TL789.8.U5H53 2012
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