Limiting Outer Space

Limiting Outer Space
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Publisher : Palgrave Macmillan
Total Pages : 367
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ISBN-10 : 1349676608
ISBN-13 : 9781349676606
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Book Synopsis Limiting Outer Space by : Alexander C.T. Geppert

Download or read book Limiting Outer Space written by Alexander C.T. Geppert and published by Palgrave Macmillan. This book was released on 2017-12-25 with total page 367 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Limiting Outer Space propels the historicization of outer space by focusing on the Post-Apollo period. After the moon landings, disillusionment set in. Outer space, no longer considered the inevitable destination of human expansion, lost much of its popular appeal, cultural significance and political urgency. With the rapid waning of the worldwide Apollo frenzy, the optimism of the Space Age gave way to an era of space fatigue and planetized limits. Bringing together the history of European astroculture and American-Soviet spaceflight with scholarship on the 1970s, this cutting-edge volume examines the reconfiguration of space imaginaries from a multiplicity of disciplinary perspectives. Rather than invoking oft-repeated narratives of Cold War rivalry and an escalating Space Race, Limiting Outer Space breaks new ground by exploring a hitherto underrated and understudied decade, the Post-Apollo period.


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