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Historical Studies In The Societal Impact Of Spaceflight

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Author : Steven J. Dick
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2015

Historical Studies In The Societal Impact Of Spaceflight written by Steven J. Dick and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015 with Astronautics categories.

Historical Studies In The Societal Impact Of Spaceflight

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Author : Steven J. Dick
language : en
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Release Date : 2015

Historical Studies In The Societal Impact Of Spaceflight

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Author : Steven J. Dick
language : en
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Historical Studies In The Societal Impact Of Spaceflight

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Author : Steven J. Dick
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2019-07-23

This volume presents a series of in-depth studies on the mutual interaction of space exploration and society--part of a larger need to understand the relationships between science, technology, and society. After beginning with a study of public attitudes toward space over time, it then moves on to specific case studies of potential "spinoffs" from NASA's space program in the areas of medical technology, integrated circuits, and the multibillion-dollar industry today known as MEMS (microelectromechanical systems). These studies explicitly raise the difficult questions of what can be considered spinoff and how much of any particular claimed spinoff can be attributed to NASA. Beyond spinoffs, the final part of the volume considers broader issues of space and society, including the controversy over the use of nuclear components in spacecraft, the relationship between NASA and the environment, the impact of applications satellites, and the impact of the Apollo program. Space exploration has also spawned entirely new disciplines, including astrogeology, astrochemistry, and even astrotheology. The final chapter explores the budding discipline of astrosociology.

Societal Impact Of Spaceflight

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Author : Steven J. Dick
language : en
Publisher: Government Printing Office
Release Date : 2007

Societal Impact Of Spaceflight written by Steven J. Dick and has been published by Government Printing Office this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007 with Astronautics categories.

Societal Impact Of Spaceflight

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Author : Steven J. Dick
language : en
Publisher: U. S. National Aeronautics & Space Administration
Release Date : 2007

Societal Impact Of Spaceflight written by Steven J. Dick and has been published by U. S. National Aeronautics & Space Administration this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007 with Business & Economics categories.

Since the dawn of spaceflight, advocates of a robust space effort have argued that human activity beyond Earth makes a significant difference in everyday life. Assertions abound about the "impact" of spaceflight on society and its relationship to the larger contours of human existence. Fifty years after the Space Age began, it is time to examine the effects of spaceflight on society in a historically rigorous way. Has the Space Age indeed had a significant effect on society? If so, what are those influences? What do we mean by an "impact" on society? And what parts of society? Conversely, has society had any effect on spaceflight? What would be different had there been no Space Age? The purpose of this volume is to examine these and related questions through scholarly research, making use especially of the tools of the historian and the broader social sciences and humanities. Herein a stellar array of scholars does just that, and arrives at sometimes surprising conclusions.

Historical Studies In The Societal Impact Of Spaceflight

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Author : Steven J. Dick
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2015

Nasa 50th Anniversary Proceedings Nasa S First 50 Years Historical Perspectives

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Author : Steven J. Dick
language : en
Publisher: U. S. National Aeronautics & Space Administration
Release Date : 2010-07-07

Nasa 50th Anniversary Proceedings Nasa S First 50 Years Historical Perspectives written by Steven J. Dick and has been published by U. S. National Aeronautics & Space Administration this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-07-07 with Law categories.

On 29 July 1958, President Dwight D. Eisenhower signed the National Aeronautics and Space Act, creating the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), which became operational on 1 October of that year. Over the next 50 years, NASA achieved a set of spectacular feats, ranging from advancing the well-established field of aeronautics to pioneering the new fields of Earth and space science and human spaceflight. In the midst of the geopolitical context of the Cold War, 12 Americans walked on the Moon, arriving in peace “for all mankind.” Humans saw their home planet from a new perspective, with unforgettable Apollo images of Earthrise and the “Blue Marble,” as well as the “pale blue dot” from the edge of the solar system. A flotilla of spacecraft has studied Earth, while other spacecraft have probed the depths of the solar system and the universe beyond. In the 1980s, the evolution of aeronautics gave us the first winged human spacecraft, the Space Shuttle, and the International Space Station stands as a symbol of human cooperation in space as well as a possible way station to the stars. With the Apollo fire and two Space Shuttle accidents, NASA has also seen the depths of tragedy. In this volume, a wide array of scholars turn a critical eye toward NASA’s first 50 years, probing an institution widely seen as the premier agency for exploration in the world, carrying on a long tradition of exploration by the United States and the human species in general. Fifty years after its founding, NASA finds itself at a crossroads that historical perspectives can only help to illuminate.

Astrobiology Discovery And Societal Impact

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Author : Steven J. Dick
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2018-05-03

Astrobiology Discovery And Societal Impact written by Steven J. Dick and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-05-03 with Juvenile Nonfiction categories.

Examines humanistic aspects of astrobiology, exploring approaches, critical issues, and implications of the discovery of extraterrestrial life.

Boom

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Author : Byrne Hobart
language : en
Publisher: Stripe Press
Release Date : 2024-11-19

Boom written by Byrne Hobart and has been published by Stripe Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2024-11-19 with Business & Economics categories.

A timely investigation of the causes of technological and scientific stagnation, and a radical blueprint for accelerating innovation. “Read this book for the alternative history of our age.” —Peter Thiel, investor and author of Zero to One “A must-read for those who seek to build the future.” —Marc Andreessen, cofounder of Netscape and Andreessen Horowitz From the Moon landing to the dawning of the atomic age, the decades prior to the 1970s were characterized by the routine invention of transformative technologies at breakneck speed. By comparison, ours is an age of stagnation. Median wage growth has slowed, inequality and income concentration are on the rise, and scientific research has become increasingly expensive and incremental. Why are we unable to replicate the rate of progress of past decades? What can we do to reinvigorate innovation? In Boom, Byrne Hobart and Tobias Huber take an inductive approach to the problem. In a series of case studies tracking some of the most significant breakthroughs of the past 100 years—from the Manhattan Project and the Apollo program to fracking and Bitcoin—they reverse-engineer how transformative progress arises from small groups with a unified vision, vast funding, and surprisingly poor accountability. They conclude that financial bubbles, while often maligned as destructive and destabilizing forces, have in fact been the engine of past breakthroughs and will drive future advances. In other words: Bubbles aren’t all bad. Integrating insights from economics, philosophy, and history, Boom identifies the root causes of the Great Stagnation and provides a blueprint for accelerating innovation. By decreasing collective risk aversion, overfunding experimental processes, and organizing high-agency individuals around a transcendent mission, bubbles are the key to realizing a future that is radically different from the present. Boom offers a definite and optimistic vision of our future—and a path to unleash a new era of global prosperity.

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