Space Travel and Culture: From Apollo to Space Tourism [Paperback]

David Bell (Editor), Martin Parker (Editor)

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Publication Date: May 29 2009 | ISBN-10: 1405193328 | ISBN-13: 978-1405193320

Explores the significance of the first Apollo moon landing and how the countless books, films, and products associated with factual space fiction had an affect on popular culture and artistic practice, but not social sciences and humanities

Investigates how a topic is hugely important in popular culture, but almost invisible in the academy, and how it makes us want to ask questions about visibility, or perhaps self-censorship
Evaluates how little impact the space age actually had on the social sciences and humanities - partly because its combination of military-industrial cold war politics, combined with patriarchy and big science, sits uneasily with contemporary thought in these areas
Provides an interdisciplinary collection of essays on various aspects of NASA, the moon landing, and the commercialization of space generally
The book travels from hard engineering to space romance, echoing the variety of attempts to blur science and culture

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Investigates how a topic is hugely important in popular culture, but almost invisible in the academy, and how it makes us want to ask questions about visibility, or perhaps self-censorship
Evaluates how little impact the space age actually had on the social sciences and humanities - partly because its combination of military-industrial cold war politics, combined with patriarchy and big science, sits uneasily with contemporary thought in these areas
Provides an interdisciplinary collection of essays on various aspects of NASA, the moon landing, and the commercialization of space generally
The book travels from hard engineering to space romance, echoing the variety of attempts to blur science and culture

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Paperback: 232 pages
Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell (May 29 2009)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1405193328
ISBN-13: 978-1405193320
Product Dimensions: 15.3 x 1.5 x 23 cm
Shipping Weight: 340 g

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One of the most iconic moments of the twentieth century was the first Apollo moon landing. The images of the earth from space, of Armstrong and Aldrin on the moon, the massive cold war organisation of NASA and the Soviet Union, and the countless books, films and products associated with factual space fiction have a huge significance in terms of popular culture and artistic practice. However, it is remarkable how little impact the space age has had on the social sciences and humanities more specifically. Perhaps this is partly because its combination of militaryindustrial cold war politics, combined with patriarchy and big science, sits uneasily with contemporary thought in these areas. To admit an interest in such matters is likely to suggest a wilful detachment from the urgencies of contemporary life, or the sophistications of contemporary theory, unless it is a topic being used to demonstrate the catastrophic failures of complex organization, or the hubris of nation states, or the dreams of men.

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