Collaboration in space and the search for peace on earth
Andrew L. Jenks.
Bok Engelsk 2022
| Omfang | 1 online resource (171 pages) : : digital, PDF file(s).
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| Utgave | 1st ed.
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| Opplysninger | Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 22 Feb 2022).. - Cover -- Front Matter -- Half-title -- Title page -- Copyright information -- Table of Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Chapters Int-Con -- Introduction: An Alternative History of the Space Age -- A Tale of Two Tales -- Secret versus Open Science -- 1. Handshakes in Space and the Cold War Imaginary -- Where Pragmatism Meets Idealism -- Earthrise and the New Imaginary -- The Fig Leaf of Scientific Objectivity -- Enemy Imaginaries and Bureaucratic Resistance -- Androgyneity and the Handshake in Space -- ASTP's Place in History -- 2. Transnational Identity and the Limits of Cosmic Collaboration -- The Cosmic Perspective -- Lunar Utopias -- Cosmism in Policy and Practice -- Europe at the Margins -- France as a Neutral Zone -- New Agers and Space Flight in the 1970s -- Limits -- 3. Androgynous Coupling, Technological Fixes, and the Engineering of Peace -- The Buddha of Docking -- Engineering for Safety -- Moscow to Houston: We Have a Docking Problem -- Interfaces and Rehearsals -- Lights, Camera, Action -- The Objects of Peace and the Exchange of Gifts -- The Return to Zero-Sum Back on Earth -- The Message Gets Lost in Translation -- 4. Securitization and Secrecy in the Cold War: The View from Space -- Regimes of Secrecy across the Ideological Divide -- France and the Desecuritization of Soviet Science and Technology -- The Experience of Collaboration -- Harbinger of Glasnost' -- Zero-Sum Games and the Forces of Fear -- Space Travelers of the World Unite! -- Role Reversals -- Conclusion: Cooperation and ASTP's Enduring Legacies -- Imaginative Leaps through Space -- The Fate of the Androgynes -- End Matter -- Bibliography -- Index.. - There has been quite a bit of scholarship on the history of the space race, but collaboration in space has received little attention and has usually been dismissed as a propaganda side show. This book thus fills a critical gap by showing the importance of collaboration in space as an antidote to Cold War hostilities and as an important yet underappreciated episode in the development of science and technology in the twentieth century.
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| ISBN | 9781839980435
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