To touch the face of God : the sacred, the profane and the American space program, 1957-1975 [E-Book] / Kendrick Oliver.
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Personal Name(s): | Oliver, Kendrick |
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Baltimore :
Johns Hopkins University Press,
2013
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xiii, 229 pages, [10] pages of plates : illustrations, ports. |
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englisch |
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New series in NASA history
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- Introduction: "The blasphemy of going up"
- "A power greater than any of us" : religion and secularity in the formation of the American space program
- "Signals of transcendence" : the rise and fall of space-age theology
- "Into the other world" : anticipations of spaceflight as religious experience
- "Perhaps a meaning to us" : the Apollo missions as religious experience
- "Evil triumphs when good men do nothing" : religious Americans and NASA in the autumn of the space age
- Epilogue.