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Space travel and culture : from Apollo to space tourism / edited by Martin Parker and David Bell.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextLanguage: English Series: Sociological review monographPublication details: Malden, MA : Wiley-Blackwell/Sociological Review, c2009.Description: 223 p. : ill. ; 23 cmISBN:
  • 9781405193320
  • 1405193328
Other title:
  • Space travel & culture
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 629.45 Par/Spa
LOC classification:
  • TL794.5 .S62 2009
Other classification:
  • 55.69
Online resources:
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.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

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.