![]() Into the Cosmos shows us the fascinating interplay of Soviet politics, science, and culture during the Khrushchev era, and how the space program became a binding force between these elements. It also proved to be an invaluable tool in a worldwide propaganda campaign for socialism, a political system that could now seemingly accomplish anything it set its mind to. The success of the space program captured the hopes and dreams of nearly every Soviet citizen and became a critical cultural vehicle in the country’s emergence from Stalinism and the devastation of World War II. These events were a direct challenge to the United States and the capitalist model that claimed ownership of scientific aspiration and achievement. In the span of a few years, Soviets sent the first animal into space, the first man, and the first woman. The launch of the Sputnik satellite in October 1957 changed the course of human history. A timely contribution to the study of the politics of science and technology, it points the way to future international cooperation. ![]() Illustrated with pictures and diagrams, enlivened with anecdotes involving key world players in space science, this book provides a rich blend of factual information and personal recollection, history and interpretation. The history of cooperation between ESA and NASA as exemplified by two specific projects-Ulysses and the international space station-highlights the difficulties of associating different decision-making bodies and political systems. With an eye to future global space activities, the authors detail ESA’s relationships with its own member states and with other countries, particularly the United States. ![]() Covering thirty years, this account traces the evolution of ESA’s programs, facilities, and capabilities and the establishment of its scientific, technological, industrial, and political policies and objectives. Bonnet and Vittorio Manno give us an insiders’ view of the agency-its beginnings as the European Space Research Organization, its development in the face of early difficulties, and its daily operations. Linking fifteen European nations, the European Space Agency offers a working model of scientific, technological, and political cooperation on an international scale. With the end of the Cold War, will the space race become a cooperative venture? This book, which tells the story of the European Space Agency, shows how such a cooperative enterprise has worked over the past three decades and how it might apply to future space science. “NASA and Woodstock may now seem polarized, but this illuminating, original chronicle…traces multiple crosscurrents between them.” George Zamka, Colonel USMC (Ret.) and former NASA astronaut Maher the maelstrom of the 1960s and 1970s as it collided with NASA’s program for human spaceflight.” “As a child in the 1960s, I was aware of both NASA’s achievements and social unrest, but unaware of the clashes between those two historical currents. Against a backdrop of Saturn V moonshots and Neil Armstrong’s giant leap for mankind, Apollo in the Age of Aquarius brings the cultural politics of the space race back down to planet Earth. Neil Maher reveals that there were actually unexpected synergies between the space program and the budding environmental, feminist and civil rights movements as photos from space galvanized environmentalists, women challenged the astronauts’ boys club and NASA’s engineers helped tackle inner city housing problems. But a new breed of activists denounced it as a colossal waste of resources needed to solve pressing problems at home. With its lavishly funded mandate to put a man on the moon, the Apollo mission promised to reinvigorate a country that had lost its way. ![]() This lively and original account of the space race makes the case that the conjunction of these two era-defining events was not entirely coincidental. The summer of 1969 saw astronauts land on the moon for the first time and hippie hordes descend on Woodstock. “A substance-rich, original on every page exploration of how the space program interacted with the environmental movement, and also with the peace and ‘Whole Earth’ movements of the 1960s.” Emme Astronautical Literature AwardĪ Bloomberg View Must-Read Book of the YearĪ Choice Outstanding Academic Title of the Year
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