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Remembering the Space Age: Proceedings of the 50th Anniversary Conference
Steven J. Dick
History
Remembering the Space Age: Proceedings of the 50th Anniversary Conference
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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.

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English
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9781493692484
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Acknowledgments
Introduction
Part I. National and Global Dimensions of the Space Age
Chapter 1 - Gigantic Follies? Human Exploration and the Space Age in Long-Term Historical Perspective (J. R. McNeill)
Chapter 2 - Spaceflight in the National Imagination (Asif A. Siddiqi)
Chapter 3 - Building Space Capability Through European Regional Collaboration (John Krige)
Chapter 4 - Imagining an Aerospace Agency in the Atomic Age (Robert R. MacGregor)
Chapter 5 - Creating a Memory of the German Rocket Program for the Cold War (Michael J. Neufeld)
Chapter 6 - Operation Paperclip in Huntsville, Alabama (Monique Laney)
Chapter 7 - The Great Leap Upward: China's Human Spaceflight Program and Chinese National Identity (James R. Hansen)
Chapter 8 - "The 'Right' Stuff: The Reagan Revolution and the U.S. Space Program" (Andrew J. Butrica)
Chapter 9 - Great (Unfulfilled) Expectations: To Boldly Go Where No Social Scientist or Historian Has Gone Before (Jonathan Coopersmith)
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