Binding: Paperback
Description: Who were the men who led America's first voyages into space? Soldiers? Daredevils? The public sometimes imagined them that way: military men or hot - shot pilots without the capacity for doubt fear or worry. Instead the early astronauts were something else: a new kind of 'organization man calm calculating and attuned to the politics and celebrity of the Space Race. Through archival documents popular culture and interviews with the astronauts themselves the book examines the origins of a new American profession and follows it through the last Moon landing and the creation of the Space Shuttle.
Title: Inventing The American Astronaut
Author(s): Hersch Matthew H.
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Barcode: 9781137025289
Pages: 219 Pages, Xiii, 219 P.
Publication Date: 10/1/2012
Series: Palgrave Studies in the History of Science and Technology
Category: History Of Science