The Heavens and the Earth  -  Walter A. McDougall

A Political History of the Space Age

KORTE INHOUD

[I]n 1997, the fortieth year after Americans named Sputnik I a "technological Pearl Harbor," who can deny that the space program has been a profound disappointment? Indeed, what surprises me now about ... the Heavens and the Earth is not whatever prescience it may have shown regarding the flaws of the technocratic approach symbolized by NASA, but rather how much I still wanted to believe as late as 1985 that the Space Shuttle might usher in a second Space Age of ineffable potential. In short, I should have ...
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1997 1x BEKROOND Uitgever: Johns Hopkins University Press 555 paginas Taal: Engels ISBN-10: 0801857481 ISBN-13: 9780801857485