People dreamed of cosmic exploration—winged spaceships and lunar voyages; space stations and robot astronauts—long before it actually happened. Space and th

The introduction will set out the principal theme of the book: that the rise of the U.S. space program was due to a concerted effort by science writers, enginee

In this innovatory book Daniel Sage analyses how and why American space exploration reproduced and transformed American cultural and political imaginations by a