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Space travel and culture : from Apollo to space tourism / edited by Martin Parker and David Bell.
Contributor(s): Parker, Martin, 1962- | Bell, David, 1965 Feb. 12-.
Material type:
BookSeries: Sociological review monographs.Publisher: Malden, MA : Wiley-Blackwell/Sociological Review, c2009Description: 223 p. : ill., ports. ; 23 cm.ISBN: 9781405193320; 1405193328.Other title: Space travel & culture.Subject(s): Astronautics -- History
| Astronautics -- Social aspects -- History | Astronautics and civilization | Astronautics -- Political aspects -- History | Space tourism | Popular culture | Outer space -- Exploration -- HistoryDDC classification: | Other classification: 55.69
Contents:
Introduction : making space / Martin Parker and David Bell -- Checklist : the secret life of Apollo's 'fourth crewmember' / Matthew H. Hersch -- Political history of NASA's space shuttle : the development years, 1972-1982 / Brian Woods -- Geostationary orbit : a critical legal geography of space's most valuable real estate / Christy Collis -- Cosmos as capitalism's outside / Peter Dickens -- Capitalists in space / Martin Parker -- Space is the (non)place : Martians, Marxists, and the outer space of the radical imagination / Stevphen Shukaitis -- Space race and Soviet utopian thinking / Iina Kohonen -- Archaeology of space exploration / Alice Gorman -- Giant leaps and forgotten steps : NASA and the performance of gender / Daniel Sage -- Idealized heroes of 'retrotopia' : history, identity and the postmodern in Apollo 13 / Dario Llinares -- Middle America, the moon, the sublime and the uncanny / Darren Jorgensen -- Re-thinking Apollo : envisioning environmentalism in space / Holly Henry and Amanda Taylor -- Conclusion : to infinity and beyond? / Warren Smith.
| Item type | Current library | Collection | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Book | Science Museum London Dana Research Centre Library: Books | Science & Technology Studies Collection | 629.784:93 SPACE (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Available | 2402441074 |
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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