Space travel and culture :
Space travel and culture : from Apollo to space tourism /
Space travel & culture
edited by Martin Parker and David Bell.
- Malden, MA : Wiley-Blackwell/Sociological Review, c2009.
- 223 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
- Sociological review monographs .
- Sociological review monograph. .
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction : making space / Checklist : the secret life of Apollo's 'fourth crewmember' / Political history of NASA's space shuttle : the development years, 1972-1982 / Geostationary orbit : a critical legal geography of space's most valuable real estate / Cosmos as capitalism's outside / Capitalists in space / Space is the (non)place : Martians, Marxists, and the outer space of the radical imagination / Space race and Soviet utopian thinking / Archaeology of space exploration / Giant leaps and forgotten steps : NASA and the performance of gender / Idealized heroes of 'retrotopia' : history, identity and the postmodern in Apollo 13 / Middle America, the moon, the sublime and the uncanny / Re-thinking Apollo : envisioning environmentalism in space / Conclusion : to infinity and beyond? / Martin Parker and David Bell -- Matthew H. Hersch -- Brian Woods -- Christy Collis -- Peter Dickens -- Martin Parker -- Stevphen Shukaitis -- Iina Kohonen -- Alice Gorman -- Daniel Sage -- Dario Llinares -- Darren Jorgensen -- Holly Henry and Amanda Taylor -- Warren Smith.
9781405193320 1405193328
2009013364
GBA923028 bnb
014921157 Uk
Astronautics--History.
Astronautics--Social aspects.
Astronautics and civilization.
Astronautics--Political aspects.
Space tourism.
Popular culture.
Outer space--Exploration--History.
TL794.5 / .S62 2009
629.45 Par/Spa
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction : making space / Checklist : the secret life of Apollo's 'fourth crewmember' / Political history of NASA's space shuttle : the development years, 1972-1982 / Geostationary orbit : a critical legal geography of space's most valuable real estate / Cosmos as capitalism's outside / Capitalists in space / Space is the (non)place : Martians, Marxists, and the outer space of the radical imagination / Space race and Soviet utopian thinking / Archaeology of space exploration / Giant leaps and forgotten steps : NASA and the performance of gender / Idealized heroes of 'retrotopia' : history, identity and the postmodern in Apollo 13 / Middle America, the moon, the sublime and the uncanny / Re-thinking Apollo : envisioning environmentalism in space / Conclusion : to infinity and beyond? / Martin Parker and David Bell -- Matthew H. Hersch -- Brian Woods -- Christy Collis -- Peter Dickens -- Martin Parker -- Stevphen Shukaitis -- Iina Kohonen -- Alice Gorman -- Daniel Sage -- Dario Llinares -- Darren Jorgensen -- Holly Henry and Amanda Taylor -- Warren Smith.
9781405193320 1405193328
2009013364
GBA923028 bnb
014921157 Uk
Astronautics--History.
Astronautics--Social aspects.
Astronautics and civilization.
Astronautics--Political aspects.
Space tourism.
Popular culture.
Outer space--Exploration--History.
TL794.5 / .S62 2009
629.45 Par/Spa