The heavens and the earth : a political history of the space age

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The heavens and the earth : a political history of the space age

Walter A. McDougall

Johns Hopkins University Press, 1997

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Originally published: New York : Basic Books, c1985

Includes bibliographical references and index

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内容説明

This highly acclaimed study approaches the space race as a problem in comparative public policy. Drawing on published literature, archival sources in both the United States and Europe, interviews with many of the key participants, and important declassified material, such as the National Security Council's first policy paper on space, McDougall examines U.S., European, and Soviet space programs and their politics. Opening with a short account of Nikolai Kibalchich, a late nineteenth-century Russian rocketry theoretician, McDougall argues that the Soviet Union made its way into space first because it was the world's first "technocracy"-which he defines as "the institutionalization of technological change for state purpose." He also explores the growth of a political economy of technology in both the Soviet Union and the United States.

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Illustrations Abbreviations used in Text Preface to the Johns Hopkins Edition Preface Introduction Part I. The Genesis of Sputnik 1. The HUman Seed and Social Soil: Rocketry and Revolution 2. Political Rains and First Fruit: The Cold War and Sputnik Conclusion Part II. Modern Arms and Free Men: America Before Sputnik 3. Bashful Behemoth: Technology, the State, and the Birth of Deterrence 4. While Waiting for Technology: The ICBM and the First American Space Program 5. The Satellite Decision Conclusion Part III. Vanguard and Rearguard: Eisenhower and the Setting of American Space Policy 6. "A New Era of History" and a Media Riot 7. The Birth of NASA 8. A Space Strategy for the United States 9. Sparrow in the Falcon's Nest 10. The Shape of Things to Come Conclusion Part IV: Parabolic Ballad: Khrushchev and the Setting of Soviet Space Policy 11. Party Line 12. The Missle Bluff 13. Hammers or Sickles in Space? 14. Space Age Communism: The Khrushchevian Synthesis Conclusion Part V: Kennedy, Johnson, and the Technocratic Temptation 15. Destination Moon 16. Hooded Falcons: Space Technology and Assured Destruction 17. Benign Hypocrisy: American Space Diplomacy 18. Big Operator: James Webb's Space Age America 19. Second Thoughts Conclusion Part VI. The Heavens and the Earth: The First Twenty-five Years 20. Voyages to Tsiolkovskia 21. The Quest for a G.O.D. 22. A Fire in the Sun Appendix Abbreviations used in Notes Notes Index

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