Inventing the American astronaut /

Inventing the American astronaut /

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Author / Creator:	Hersch, Matthew H.
Edition:	1st ed.
Imprint:	New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2012.
Description:	xiii, 219 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
Language:	English
Series:	Palgrave studies in the history of science and technology Palgrave studies in the history of science and technology.
Subject:	Astronauts -- United States. Manned space flight -- History. Astronauts. Manned space flight. United States. History.
Format:	Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/8938316

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ISBN:	9781137025272 1137025271 9781137025289 113702528X
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references (p. [203] -212) and index.
Summary:	Who were the men who led America's first voyages into space? Were they soldiers or 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.

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Call Number:	TL789.85.A1 H47 2012
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