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Space Travel and Culture: From Apollo to Space Tourism
David Bell (Editor), Martin Parker (Editor)
ISBN: 978-1-4051-9332-0
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232 pages
June 2009, Wiley-Blackwell
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Introduction: Making Space (Martin Parker, University of Leicester School of Management and David Bell, University of Leeds).

1. Checklist: The Secret Life of Apollo’s "Fourth Crewmember" (Matthew H. Hersch, University of Pennsylvania).

2. A Political History of NASA’s Space Shuttle: The Development Years, 1972-1982 (Brian Woods, University of Glasgow).

3. The Geostationary Orbit: A Critical Legal Geography of Space’s Most Valuable Real Estate (Christy Collis, Queensland University of Technology - Brisbane).

4. The Cosmos as Capitalism’s Outside (Peter Dickens, Universities of Brighton and Essex and University of Cambridge).

5. Capitalists in Space (Martin Parker, University of Leicester School of Management).

6. Space is the (non)Place: Martians, Marxists, and the Outer Space of the Radical Imagination (Stevphen Shukaitis, University of Essex).

7. The Space Race and Soviet Utopian Thinking (Iina Kohonen, University of Art and Design, Helsinki).

8. The archaeology of space exploration (Alice Gorman, Flinders University).

9. Giant Leaps and Forgotten Steps: NASA and the Performance of Gender (Daniel Sage, Loughborough University).

10. Idealised Heroes of ‘Retrotopia’: History, Identity and the Postmodern in Apollo 13 (Dario Llinares, University of Leeds).

11. Middle America, the Moon, the Sublime and the Uncanny (Darren Jorgensen, University of Western Australia).

12. Re-thinking Apollo: Envisioning Environmentalism in Space (Holly Henry, California State University, San Bernardino and Amanda Taylor, California State University, San Bernardino).

13. Conclusion: To Infinity and Beyond? (Warren Smith, University of Leicester School of Management).

Notes on Contributors.

Index.

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