Limiting Outer Space Astroculture After Apollo /

• Συγγραφή απο Οργανισμό/Αρχή: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Άλλοι συγγραφείς: Geppert, Alexander C.T (Επιμελητής έκδοσης, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt)
• Μορφή: Ηλεκτρονική πηγή Ηλ. βιβλίο
• Γλώσσα: English
• Έκδοση: London : Palgrave Macmillan UK : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018.
• Έκδοση: 1st ed. 2018.
• Σειρά: Palgrave Studies in the History of Science and Technology
• Θέματα: 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...

Πίνακας περιεχομένων:

• Introduction
• 1 Alexander C.T. Geppert; The Post-Apollo Paradox: Envisioning Limits During the Planetized 1970s
• Part I: Navigating the 1970s
• 2 Martin Collins; The 1970s: Spaceflight and Historically Interpreting the In-between Decade
• 3 Roger D. Launius; Responding to Apollo: America's Divergent Reactions to the Moon Landings
• 4 Doug Millard; A Grounding in Space: Were the 1970s a Period of Transition in Britain's Exploration of Outer Space?
• Part II: Reconfiguring Outer Space
• 5 Robert Poole; The Myth of Progress: 2001: A Space Odyssey
• 6 Florian Kläger; The Earthward Gaze and Self-reflexivity in Anglophone Novels of the 1970s
• 7 Thore Bjørnvig; Building Outer Space: LEGO and the Conquest of the Beyond in the 1970s
• 8 Luca Follis;The Province and Heritage of Humankind: Space Law's Imaginary of Outer Space, 1967-1979
• Part III: Grounding Utopias
• 9 Andrew Jenks; Transnational Utopias, Space Exploration and the Association of Space Explorers, 1972-1985
• 10 Regina Peldszus; Architectural Experiments in Space: Orbital Stations, Simulators and Speculative Design, 1968-1982
• 11 Tilmann Siebeneichner; Spacelab: Peace, Progress and European Politics in Outer Space, 1973-1985
• 12 Peter J. Westwick; From the Club of Rome to Star Wars: The Era of Limits, Space Colonization and the Origins of SDI
• Epilogue
• 13 David A. Kirby; Final Frontiers? Envisioning Utopia in the Era of Limits.
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