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Title
Spaceflight in the shuttle era and beyond
Type
Text
Monograph
Contribution
Neal, Valerie (Author)
Subject
Space flights (LCSH)
Space shuttles (LCSH)
HISTORY--Social History (BISACSH)
SCIENCE--History (BISACSH)
TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING--Aeronautics & Astronautics (BISACSH)
Space flights (FAST)
Space shuttles (FAST)
Language
English
Illustrative Content
Illustrations
Plates
Classification
LCC: TL790 .N4135 2017
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Supplementary Content
bibliography
index
Content
text
Summary
An exploration of the changing conceptions of the iconic Space Shuttle and a call for a new vision of spaceflight The thirty years of Space Shuttle flights saw contrary changes in American visions of space. Valerie Neal, who has spent much of her career examining the Space Shuttle program, uses this iconic vehicle to question over four decades' worth of thinking about, and struggling with, the meaning of human spaceflight. She examines the ideas, images, and icons that emerged as NASA, Congress, journalists, and others sought to communicate rationales for, or critiques of, the Space Shuttle missions. At times concurrently, the Space Shuttle was billed as delivery truck and orbiting science lab, near-Earth station and space explorer, costly disaster and pinnacle of engineering success. The book's multidisciplinary approach reveals these competing depictions to examine the meaning of the spaceflight enterprise. Given the end of the Space Shuttle flights in 2011, Neal makes an appeal to reframe spaceflight once again to propel humanity forward.
Table Of Contents
Spaceflight : discerning its meaning
Space shuttle : going to work in space
Astronauts : reinventing the right stuff
Science : doing research in space
Space station : campaigning for a permanent human presence in space
Plans : envisioning the future in space
Memory : preserving meaning.
Authorized Access Point
Neal, Valerie Spaceflight in the shuttle era and beyond
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Change Date: 2018-01-08T14:37:39
Creation Date: 2016-10-21
Description Language: English
Description Modifier: United States, Library of Congress
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