Space and the American Imagination McCurdy Howard E.Paperback
Space and the American Imagination McCurdy Howard E.Paperback People dreamed of cosmic exploration--winged spaceships and lunar voyages; space stations and robot astronauts--long before it actually…
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Space and the American Imagination McCurdy Howard E.Paperback
People dreamed of cosmic exploration--winged spaceships and lunar voyages; space stations and robot astronauts--long before it actually happened. McCurdy shows how that power inspired people to attempt what they once deemed impossible. Space and the American Imagination traces the emergence of space travel in the popular mind, its expression in science fiction, and its influence on national space programs.Space exploration dramatically illustrates the power of imagination. Howard E.
Wells and the nonfiction of Willy Ley.Reaching these goals, however, required broad-based support, and McCurdy examines how advocates employed familiar metaphors to excite interest (promising, for In a mere half-century since the launch of the first Earth-orbiting satellite in 1957, humans achieved much of what they had once only read about in the fiction of Jules Verne and H. G.
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