Inventing the American Astronaut
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Format
Hardback or Cased Book
ISBN-10
1137025271
ISBN-13
9781137025272
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Imprint
Palgrave Macmillan
Country of Manufacture
GB
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Oct 1st, 2012
Print length
219 Pages
Weight
504 grams
Dimensions
16.30 x 23.40 x 1.90 cms
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Who were the men who led America's first expeditions into space? From the early days of Project Mercury to the last moon landing, this lively history demystifies the American astronaut while revealing the warring personalities, raw ambition, and complex motives of the men who were the public face of the space program.
Who were the men who led America''s first voyages into space? Soldiers? 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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