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" Remembering the space age / "
Steven J. Dick, editor.
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BL
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981444
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b735814
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Remembering the space age /\ Steven J. Dick, editor.
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| Publication Statement
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Washington, DC :: National Aeronautics and Space Administration, Office of External Relations, History Division,, 2008.
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| Series Statement
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NASA SP ;; 2008-4703
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xiii, 465 pages :: illustrations (some color) ;; 25 cm.
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0160817234
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: 9780160817236
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Proceedings of an 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.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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| Contents
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Gigantic follies? : human exploration and the space age in long-term historical perspective / J.R. McNeill -- Space in the national imagination / Asif A. Siddiqi -- Building space capability through European regional collaboration / John Krige -- Imagining an aerospace agency in the atomic age / Robert R. MacGregor -- Creating a memory of the German Rocket Program for the Cold War / Michael J. Neufeld -- Operation Paperclip in Huntsville, Alabama / Monique Laney -- Great leap upward : China's human spaceflight program and Chinese national identity / James R. Hansen -- Right stuff : the Reagan revolution and the U.S. space program / Andrew J. Butrica -- Great (unfulfilled) expectations : to boldly go where no social scientist and historian have gone before / Jonathan Coopersmith -- Far out : the space age in American culture / Emily Rosenberg -- Second nature rising : spaceflight in an era of representation / Martin Collins -- Creating memories : myth, identity, and culture in the Russian space age / Slava Gerovitch -- Music of memory and forgetting : global echoes of Sputnik 2 / Amy Nelson -- From the cradle to the grave : cosmonaut nostalgia in Soviet and post-Soviet film / Cathy Lewis -- Examining the iconic and rediscovering the photography of space exploration in context to the history of photography / Michael Soluri -- Robert A Heinlein's influence on spaceflight / Robert G. Kennedy III -- American spaceflight history's master narrative and the meaning of memory / Roger D. Launius -- Melancholic space age anniversary / Walter A. McDougall -- Has space development made a difference? / John Logsdon -- Has there been a space age? / Sylvia Kraemer -- Cultural functions of space exploration / Linda Billings.
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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.
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Astronautics-- History-- 20th century.
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Astronautics.
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SPACE EXPLORATION.
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SPACE FLIGHT.
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Ruimteonderzoek.
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Ruimtevaart.
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629.4/109045
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TL788.5.R46 2008
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55.60bcl
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Dick, Steven J.
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