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• Includes bibliographical references (pages 263-292) and index.
• From enemy aliens to valued citizens — Huntsville becomes the Rocket City — I never thought of him as a foreigner — Becoming Americans — We just did not move in the same circles — The Rudolph case — Vergangenheitsbewältigung in Huntsville.

Subjects:

• Rocketry — Biography — 20th century.
• Aerospace engineers — United States — Biography.
• German Americans — Alabama — Huntsville — History — 20th century.
• Ex-Nazis — United States — History — 20th century.

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Part of the series New series in NASA history;New series in NASA history.
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• Includes bibliographical references (pages 387-392) and index.
• Planetary observers, Mars observer — Politics and engineering on the Martian frontier — Attack of the great galactic ghoul! — Engineering for uncertainty — Mars mania! — The faster, better, cheaper future — Revenge of the great galactic ghoul — Recovery and reform — Margins on the final frontier — Sending a spy satellite to Mars — Robotic geologists on Mars — Mars phoenix : re-engineering the Polar Lander.

Subjects:

• Space flight to Mars.
• Mars (Planet) — Exploration.
• Jet Propulsion Laboratory (U.S.)
• Jet Propulsion Laboratory (U.S.) fast (OCoLC)fst00555578
• Mars (Planet) fast (OCoLC)fst01243063
• Jet Propulsion Laboratory. (DE-588)4224225-3 gnd
• Mars. (DE-588)4037687-4 gnd

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• Includes bibliographical references (pages 257-268) and index.
• During the summer of 1969-the summer Americans first walked on the moon-musician and poet Patti Smith recalled strolling down the Coney Island Boardwalk to a refreshment stand, where pictures of Jesus, President Kennedy, and the astronauts were taped to the wall behind the register. Such was the zeitgeist in the year of the moon. Yet this holy trinity of 1960s America would quickly fall apart. Although Jesus and John F. Kennedy remained iconic, by the time the Apollo Program came to a premature end just three years later few Americans mourned its passing. Why did support for the space program decrease so sharply by the early 1970s? Rooted in profound scientific and technological leaps, rational technocratic management, and an ambitious view of the universe as a realm susceptible to human mastery, the Apollo moon landings were the grandest manifestation of postwar American progress and seemed to prove that the United States could accomplish anything to which it committed its energies and resources. To the great dismay of its many proponents, however, NASA found the ground shifting beneath its feet as a fierce wave of anti-rationalism arose throughout American society, fostering a cultural environment in which growing numbers of Americans began to contest rather than embrace the rationalist values and vision of progress that Apollo embodied. Shifting the conversation of Apollo from its Cold War origins to larger trends in American culture and society, and probing an eclectic mix of voices from the era, including intellectuals, religious leaders, rock musicians, politicians, and a variety of everyday Americans, Matthew Tribbe paints an electrifying portrait of a nation in the midst of questioning the very values that had guided it through the postwar years as it began to develop new conceptions of progress that had little to do with blasting ever more men to the moon. No Requiem for the Space Age offers a narrative of the 1960s and 1970s unlike any told before, with the story of Apollo as the story of America it
• Part One: On Talking about Apollo — 1. The Message of the Spirit of Apollo : Commonplace Reactions — 2. The Nihilism of the WASPs: Norman Mailer in NASA-Land — Part Two: On Mastering the Universe — 3. Apollo and the Human Condition — 4. The Thunder of Apollo: A Benevolent Endeavor in a Century of Brutality — Part Three: On Rationalism and Neo-Romanticism — 5. Turning a Miracle into a Bummer: Squareland, Potland, and the Psychedelic Moon — 6. God is Alive, Magic is Afoot : Moon Voyaging in the Neo-Romantic 1970s — Conclusion: In the Wake of Apollo.

Subjects:

• Project Apollo (U.S.) — Public opinion — History — 20th century.
• Astronautics — Social aspects — United States — History — 20th century.
• Space flight to the moon — History — 20th century.
• Popular culture — United States.
• Project Apollo (U.S.) fast (OCoLC)fst00610722
• United States. fast (OCoLC)fst01204155
• Project Apollo (U.S.)
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• History. fast (OCoLC)fst01411628

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• Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Acknowledgments — Introduction: Imagination — Vision — Making space flight seem real — Cold War — Apollo: the aura of competence — Mysteries of life — Extraterrestrial frontier — Stations in space — Spacecraft — Robots — Space commerce — Back on Earth — Imagination and culture — Notes — Index.
• People dreamed of cosmic exploration, winged spaceships and lunar voyages space stations and robot astronauts, long before it actually happened. This book traces the emergence of space travel in the popular mind, its expression in science fiction, and its influence on national space programs. Space exploration dramatically illustrates the power of imagination. The author shows how that power inspired people to attempt what they once deemed impossible. In a mere half-century since the launch of the first Earth orbiting satellite in 1957, humans achieved much of what they had once only read about in the fiction of Jules Verne and H.G. Wells and the nonfiction of Willy Ley. Reaching these goals, however, required broad-based support, and the author examines how advocates employed familiar metaphors to excite interest (promising, for example, that space exploration would recreate the American frontier experience) and prepare the public for daring missions into space. When unexpected realities and harsh obstacles threatened their progress, the space community intensified efforts to make their wildest dreams come true. This work remains relevant given contemporary questions about future plans at NASA. Fully revised and updated since its original publication in 1997, it includes a reworked introduction and conclusion and new chapters on robotics and space commerce.

Subjects:

• Astronautics — United States — Public opinion.
• Mass media — United States — Influence.
• Astronautics and state — United States.
• Popular culture — United States.

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