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Spaceflight
A concise history of spaceflight, from military rocketry through Sputnik, Apollo, robots in space, space culture, and human spaceflight today. Spaceflight is one of the greatest human achievements of the twentieth century. The Soviets launched Sputnik, the first satellite, in 1957; less than twelve years later, the American Apollo astronauts landed on the Moon. In this volume of the MIT Press Essential Knowledge series, Michael Neufeld offers a concise history of spaceflight, mapping the full spectrum of activities that humans have developed in space. Neufeld explains that “the space program” should not be equated only with human spaceflight. Since the 1960s, unmanned military and commer...
NASA and the Long Civil Rights Movement
American Astronautical Society Eugene M. Emme Astronautical Literature Award As NASA prepared for the launch of Apollo 11 in July 1969, many African American leaders protested the billions of dollars used to fund “space joyrides” rather than help tackle poverty, inequality, and discrimination at home. This volume examines such tensions as well as the ways in which NASA’s goal of space exploration aligned with the cause of racial equality. It provides new insights into the complex relationship between the space program and the civil rights movement in the Jim Crow South and abroad. Essays explore how thousands of jobs created during the space race offered new opportunities for minor...
Willy Ley
"Beautifully written. Reveals the vicissitudes of an extraordinarily interesting life."?Michael J. Neufeld, author of Von Braun: Dreamer of Space, Engineer of War "Willy Ley has been a mystery among spaceflight historians for many years. His role as science writer, advocate, and popularizer is known to many but understood by few. This book unpacks that story."?Roger D. Launius, associate director of collections and curatorial affairs, National Air and Space Museum "Ley lit the fire of interplanetary enthusiasm in the hearts of generations of young space cadets. Long overdue, this biography establishes the details and the ups and downs of his career."?Tom D. Crouch, author of Lighter Than Air...
Destined for the Stars
Where did humanity get the idea that outer space is a frontier waiting to be explored? Destined for the Stars unravels the popularization of the science of space exploration in America between 1944 and 1955, arguing that the success of the US space program was due not to technological or economic superiority, but was sustained by a culture that had long believed it was called by God to settle new frontiers and prepare for the inevitable end of time and God’s final judgment. Religious forces, Newell finds, were in no small way responsible for the crescendo of support for and interest in space exploration in the early 1950s, well before Project Mercury—the United States’ first human spac...
رحلات الفضاء
تاريخٌ موجزٌ لرِحْلاتِ الفضاء، يَبدأ مِن الصَّواريخِ العسكريَّةِ، ويمتدُّ عبرَ «سبوتنيك» و«أبولُّو» والمَرْكَباتِ الرُّوبوتيَّةِ وثَقافةِ الفَضاء، ويَصل بنا إلى رحلات الفضاءِ المأهولة. تُعد رحلات الفضاءِ واحدةً من أعظمِ الإنجازاتِ البشريَّةِ في القرنِ العشرين. في البداية، أطلَق السوفييت «سبوتنيك»، أولَ قمرٍ صناعي، في عامِ ١٩٥٧؛ وبعدَ أقلَّ من اثنَيْ عشَرَ عامًا، هبَط رُوَّا...
The City Record
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Y si la Historia nos miente
La verdad se parece al diamante en que tiene numerosas facetas y casi infinitas aristas. Igual que la piedra preciosa brilla en todas direcciones, la verdad proyecta sus destellos esclarecedores en dirección a muchos puntos. Seamos sinceros. La propaganda, la mentira, el bulo, la noticia falsa, va con nosotros casi desde que el mundo es mundo. Son cualquier cosa menos nueva. Jalonan nuestra historia unas veces como consecuencia de la observación inexacta de un suceso o de la difusión de un testimonio imperfecto acerca del mismo, y otras son pura falsedad. Reconozcamos que jamás conoció el hombre un régimen de «verdad» objetiva. Estudiosos hay que incluso sostienen que lo normal han s...
Democracy in Exile
DEMOCRACY IN EXILE -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Democracy, Expertise, and U.S. Foreign Policy -- 1. Masses and Marxism in Weimar Germany -- 2. The Social Role of the Intellectual Exile -- 3. Public Opinion, Propaganda, and Democracy in Crisis -- 4. Psychological Warfare in Theory and Practice -- 5. The Making of a Defense Intellectual -- 6. The Adviser -- 7. The Institution Builder -- 8. Social Science and Its Discontents -- Conclusion: Speier, Expertise, and Democracy after 1960 -- Abbreviations -- Archival and Source Abbreviations -- Notes -- Archives Cited -- Index
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