Space Exploration in the United States
eBook - ePub

Space Exploration in the United States

A Documentary History

  1. 344 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

Space Exploration in the United States

A Documentary History

About this book

This select volume of historical documents is organized chronologically, spanning from 1914 to the present. Divided into eight chapters, it includes a narrative introduction to each historical period. This collection of historical documents provides insight into the history of the United States in its pursuit of the peaceful uses of outer space, with emphasis on the manned space program of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, as well as commercial American activities supporting human spaceflight in the early 21st century. Rocketry and space technology have served varied goals throughout the Space Age: pure research, as well as research applied for national security, national prestige, and commercial profit. There have been varied actors as well, among them individuals supported by philanthropists as well as governments, intergovernmental organizations, international consortiums, and for-profit corporations. This book focuses on space exploration, and in particular, human space exploration, leading to the questions, "Why have humans gone into outer space in the past?" and "Why will they do so in the future?" These documents help readers to examine the variety of fascinating answers to those questions.

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Information

Publisher
ABC-CLIO
Year
2019
Print ISBN
9781440871641
eBook ISBN
9798216147541

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title
  3. Copyright
  4. Contents
  5. Introduction
  6. Chronology
  7. Chapter 1: From Aeronautics to Astronautics (1910s to 1940s)
  8. Chapter 2: Creating a Space Program (1950s)
  9. Chapter 3: The Space Race (1960s)
  10. Chapter 4: After the Moon, What’s Next? (1970s)
  11. Chapter 5: The Shuttle Program (1980s)
  12. Chapter 6: To Mars and Beyond (1990s)
  13. Chapter 7: The Commercialization of Space (2000s)
  14. Chapter 8: The Future of Space (2010s)
  15. Index
  16. About the Author