The Heavens and the Earth: A Political History of the Space AgeA widely acclaimed history of the space age. Winner of the Pulitzer Prize in History This highly acclaimed study approaches the space race as a problem in comparative public policy. Drawing on published literature, archival sources in both the United States and Europe, interviews with many of the key participants, and important declassified material, such as the National Security Council's first policy paper on space, McDougall examines U.S., European, and Soviet space programs and their politics. Opening with a short account of Nikolai Kibalchich, a late nineteenth-century Russian rocketry theoretician, McDougall argues that the Soviet Union made its way into space first because it was the world's first "technocracy"—which he defines as "the institutionalization of technological change for state purpose." He also explores the growth of a political economy of technology in both the Soviet Union and the United States. |
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... cooperation in space . These two were also explicit elements of U.S. space policy . What became of the commitment to cooperation ? To begin with , negotiations at the UN were still constrained by U.S. half - heartedness and Soviet ...
... cooperation ; third , because Kennedy's advisers and enlightened opinion believed cooperation in space to be a force for global unity . Was it not only natural that man's escape from earth should foster a one - world consciousness ? As ...
... COOPERATION , " NASA HO . 26. See Frutkin . International Cooperation in Space , pp . 92–93 ; Dodd L. Harvey and Linda C. Ciccoritti , U.S. - Soviet Cooperation in Space ( Washington , D.C. , 1974 ) , pp . 86-87 ; and Letter , Kennedy ...
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The Heavens and the Earth: A Political History of the Space Age Walter A. McDougall No preview available - 2008 |