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
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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Description
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.
Table of Contents
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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