Remembering The Space Age
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Remembering The Space Age
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Author : Steven J. Dick
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2008
Remembering The Space Age 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 2008 with Astronautics categories.
From the Publisher: Proceedings of October 2007 conference, sponsored by the NASA History Division and the National Air and Space Museum, to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the Sputnik 1 launch in October 1957 and the dawn of the space age.
Remembering The Space Age Proceedings Of The 50th Anniversary Conference
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Author :
language : en
Publisher: Government Printing Office
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Remembering The Space Age Proceedings Of The 50th Anniversary Conference written by 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 with Business & Economics categories.
Proceedings of October 2007 conference, sponsored by the NASA History Division and the National Air and Space Museum, to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the Sputnik 1 launch in October 1957 and the dawn of the space age.
Spacefarers
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Author : Michael J. Neufeld
language : en
Publisher: Smithsonian Institution
Release Date : 2013-11-06
Spacefarers written by Michael J. Neufeld and has been published by Smithsonian Institution this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-11-06 with History categories.
The recent 50th anniversaries of the first human spaceflights by the Soviet Union and the United States, and the 30th anniversary of the launching of the first U.S. Space Shuttle mission, have again brought to mind the pioneering accomplishments of the first quarter century of humans in space. Historians, political scientists and others have extensively examined the technical, programmatic and political history of human spaceflight from the 1960s to the 1980s, but work is only beginning on the social and cultural history of the pioneering era. One rapidly developing area of recent scholarship is the examination of the images of spacefarers in the media, government propaganda and popular culture. How was space travel imagined in the visual media on the cusp of human spaceflights? How were astronauts and cosmonauts represented in official and quasi-official media portraits? And how were those images reproduced and transformed by in the imagination of film-makers, movie producers, popular writers, and novelists? Spacefarers addresses these questions with nine contributions from scholars in the field of aerospace history, Russian and American history, and English literature. These essays are preceded by an introduction by the editor, who discusses their place in the historiography of spaceflight and social and cultural history. The book will have potential appeal to a wide variety of scholars in history, literature and the social sciences and will include a number of striking visual images.
Amazing Stories Of The Space Age
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Author : Rod Pyle
language : en
Publisher: Prometheus Books
Release Date : 2017
Amazing Stories Of The Space Age written by Rod Pyle and has been published by Prometheus Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017 with Political Science categories.
Reveals the most unusual space missions ever devised inside and outside of NASA during a time when nothing was too odd to be taken seriously, and the race to the moon and the threat from the Soviet Union trumped all other considerations. --Publisher.
The Unreliable Nation
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Author : Edward Jones-Imhotep
language : en
Publisher: MIT Press
Release Date : 2025-03-18
The Unreliable Nation written by Edward Jones-Imhotep and has been published by MIT Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2025-03-18 with Science categories.
An examination of how technological failures defined nature and national identity in Cold War Canada. Throughout the modern period, nations defined themselves through the relationship between nature and machines. Many cast themselves as a triumph of technology over the forces of climate, geography, and environment. Some, however, crafted a powerful alternative identity: they defined themselves not through the triumph of machines over nature, but through technological failures and the distinctive natural orders that caused them. In The Unreliable Nation, Edward Jones-Imhotep examines one instance in this larger history: the Cold War–era project to extend reliable radio communications to the remote and strategically sensitive Canadian North. He argues that, particularly at moments when countries viewed themselves as marginal or threatened, the identity of the modern nation emerged as a scientifically articulated relationship between distinctive natural phenomena and the problematic behaviors of complex groups of machines. Drawing on previously unpublished archival documents and recently declassified materials, Jones-Imhotep shows how Canadian defense scientists elaborated a distinctive “Northern” natural order of violent ionospheric storms and auroral displays, and linked it to a “machinic order” of severe and widespread radio disruptions throughout the country. Tracking their efforts through scientific images, experimental satellites, clandestine maps, and machine architectures, he argues that these scientists naturalized Canada's technological vulnerabilities as part of a program to reimagine the postwar nation. The real and potential failures of machines came to define Canada, its hostile Northern nature, its cultural anxieties, and its geo-political vulnerabilities during the early Cold War. Jones-Imhotep's study illustrates the surprising role of technological failures in shaping contemporary understandings of both nature and nation.
Our Germans
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Author : Brian E. Crim
language : en
Publisher: JHU Press
Release Date : 2018-01-15
Our Germans written by Brian E. Crim and has been published by JHU Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-01-15 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
As this engaging book demonstrates, whether characterized as an expedient Cold War program born from military necessity or a dishonorable episode, the project ultimately reflects American ambivalence about the military-industrial complex and the viability of an "ends justifies the meanssolution to external threats.
Research In Nasa History
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Author : Steven J. Dick
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2009
Research In Nasa History 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 2009 with Astrodynamics categories.
"As the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) celebrated its 50th anniversary in 2008, historians as well as scientists and engineers could look back on a record of accomplishment. Much has been written about the evolution of NASA's multifaceted programs and the people who carried them out. Yet much remains to be done, and we hope this publication will facilitate research in this important field."--Page 1
Prisoner Of Infinity
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Author : Jasun Horsley
language : en
Publisher: Aeon Books
Release Date : 2018-03-20
Prisoner Of Infinity written by Jasun Horsley and has been published by Aeon Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-03-20 with Religion categories.
Prisoner of Infinity examines modern-day accounts of UFOs, alien abductions, and psychism to uncover a century-long program of psychological fragmentation, collective indoctrination, and covert cultural, social, and mythic engineering.Whether it is the forces of God, government, aliens from outer (or inner) space, or the incalculable effects of childhood sexual trauma on the human psyche, premature contact with these forces compels us to create "crucial fictions." Such semi-coherent mythic narratives make partial sense out of our experience, but in the process turn us into the unreliable narrators of our own lives.Taking UFOS and the work of "experiencer" Whitley Strieber as its departure point, Prisoner of Infinity explores how beliefs are created and perceptions are managed in the face of the inexplicably complex forces of our existence. While keeping the question of a non-human and/or paranormal element open, the book maps how all-too-human agendas (such as the CIA's MK Ultra program) have co-opted the ancient psychological process of myth-making, giving rise to dissociative, dumbed-down Hollywood versions of reality. The New Age movement, UFOs, alien abductions, psychism, psychedelic mind expansion, Transhumanism, the Space Program - what if they are all productions devised by committee in dark rooms to serve social, political, and economic goals that are largely devoid of true substance or meaning? Through an exacting and enlivening process of social, cultural and psychological examination and excavation, Prisoner of Infinity uncovers the most deeply buried treasure of all. The original, uncredited author of all mystery and meaning: the human soul.
Remember Your Humanity
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Author : Arthur Petersen
language : en
Publisher: International Student/Young Pugwash
Release Date : 2005
Remember Your Humanity written by Arthur Petersen and has been published by International Student/Young Pugwash this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2005 with Political Science categories.
We Are What We Remember
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Author : Laura Mattoon D’Amore
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Release Date : 2013-01-16
We Are What We Remember written by Laura Mattoon D’Amore and has been published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-01-16 with History categories.
Commemorative practices are revised and rebuilt based on the spirit of the time in which they are re/created. Historians sometimes imagine that commemoration captures history, but actually commemoration creates new narratives about history that allow people to interact with the past in a way that they find meaningful. As our social values change (race, gender, religion, sexuality, class), our commemorations do, too. We Are What We Remember: The American Past Through Commemoration, analyzes current trends in the study of historical memory that are particularly relevant to our own present – our biases, our politics, our contextual moment – and strive to name forgotten, overlooked, and denied pasts in traditional histories. Race, gender, and sexuality, for example, raise questions about our most treasured myths: where were the slaves at Jamestowne? How do women or lesbians protect and preserve their own histories, when no one else wants to write them? Our current social climate allows us to question authority, and especially the authoritative definitions of nation, patriotism, and heroism, and belonging. How do we “un-commemorate” things that were “mis-commemorated” in the past? How do we repair the damage done by past commemorations? The chapters in this book, contributed by eighteen emerging and established scholars, examine these modern questions that entirely reimagine the landscape of commemoration as it has been practiced, and studied, before.