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This highly acclaimed study approaches the space race as a problem in comparative public policy. Drawing on published literature, archival sources in both the United States and Europe, interviews with many of the key participants, and important declassified material, such as the National Security Council's first policy paper on space, McDougall examines U.S., European, and Soviet space programs and their politics. Opening with a short account of Nikolai Kibalchich, a late nineteenth-century Russian rocketry theoretician, McDougall argues that the Soviet Union made its way into space first because it was the world's first "technocracy" -- which he defines as "the institutionalization of technological change for state purpose." He also explores the growth of a political economy of technology in both the Soviet Union and the United States.

"Once every decade or so, a book comes along that stands by itself as a remarkable contribution to the literature of a field. Such a work is Walter A. McDougall's... the Heavens and the Earth." -- Technology and Culture

"[A] boldly conceived, elegantly written, and unfailingly provocative history of the new age of space." -- Science

"[An] immensely readable and elegant book" -- Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists

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without ceasing to be man, for he is Homo faber, the toolmaker, the technologist.And man explores through idiosyncratic choice, because he is also Homo pictor, the symbolist, the dreamer.

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  • Title Heavens & the Earth
  • Author Out of Print
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition First Trade Pape
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Basic Books, Space And Space Exploration
  • Date September 1986
  • ISBN 9780465028887 / 0465028888
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 84045314
  • Dewey Decimal Code 387.809
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