Limiting Outer Space Astroculture After Apollo /

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Geppert, Alexander C.T (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: London : Palgrave Macmillan UK : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2018.
• Series: Palgrave Studies in the History of Science and Technology
• Subjects: History.; Observations, Astronomical.; Astronomy-Observations.; Civilization-History.; Technology-History.; History of Science.; Astronomy, Observations and Techniques.; Cultural History.; History of Technology.

Limiting Outer Space propels the historicization of outer space by focusing on the Post-Apollo period. After the Apollo moon landings, disillusionment set in. With the return of the last astronaut in 1972, the skies - rather than the distant stars - once again became the limit. No longer considered...