Inventing the American astronaut[ele...
Hersch, Matthew H.

 

  • Inventing the American astronaut[electronic resource] /
  • 紀錄類型: 書目-語言資料,印刷品 : Monograph/item
    杜威分類號: 629.450092
    書名/作者: Inventing the American astronaut/ by Matthew H. Hersch.
    作者: Hersch, Matthew H.
    出版者: New York : : Palgrave Macmillan,, 2012.
    面頁冊數: 1 online resource (xiii, 219 p.) : : ill.
    標題: Astronauts - United States.
    標題: Manned space flight - History.
    標題: BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / General
    標題: TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING / Aeronautics & Astronautics
    ISBN: 9781137025296 (electronic bk.)
    ISBN: 1137025298 (electronic bk.)
    書目註: Includes bibliographical references (p. [203] -212) and index.
    內容註: 'Project Astronaut' -- 'Deke's Boys' -- Scientists In Space -- The Man In The Gray Flannel Spacesuit -- Public Space.
    摘要、提要註: Who were the men who led America's first voyages into space? Soldiers? Daredevils? The American public sometimes imagined them that way: dutiful military men or hot-shot pilots without the capacity for doubt, fear, or worry. The astronauts often portrayed themselves in this way, too, but image seldom matched reality. Instead, the early astronauts were something else
    entirely: a new kind of 'organization man,' calm, calculating, and attuned to the politics and celebrity of the Space Race. Many of the astronauts would have been just as successful in
    Corporate America, and until the first rockets carried humans into space, some seemed to be heading there. Instead, they strapped themselves to missiles and blasted themselves skyward,
    returning with a smile and an inspiring word for the press.
    .
    電子資源: http://www.palgraveconnect.com/doifinder/10.1057/9781137025296
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