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The long space age : the economic origins of space exploration from Colonial America to the Cold War / Alexander MacDonald

Type de contenu

• Texte

Type de médiation

• sans médiation

Type de support

• Volume

Titre(s)

• The long space age : the economic origins of space exploration from Colonial America to the Cold War / Alexander MacDonald

Auteur(s)

• MacDonald, Alexander

Publication

• New Haven London : Yale University Press

Date de copyright

• C 2017

Description matérielle

• 1 vol. (XI-258 p.) : jaquette ill. ; 25 cm

ISBN

• 0-300-21932-6
• 978-0-300-21932-6

EAN

• 1157381089 rel.

Classification décimale Dewey

• 629.4 23

Note sur l'exemplaire

• Est joint facture

Note sur les bibliographies et les index

• Notes bibliogr. en fin d'ouvrage. Index

Résumé ou extrait

• An economic historian argues that privately funded space exploration is not a new development, but a trend beginning with the astronomical observatories of the nineteenth century Over the last half-century there has been a rapid expansion in commerce off the surface of our planet. Nations and corporations have placed hundreds of satellites that provide billions of dollars' worth of communications, scientific, global positioning, and commercial services, while construction has been completed on humanity's ninth and largest space station. On the planet itself, government agencies, corporations, and individuals plan for the expansion of economic development to the lunar surface, asteroids, and Mars. The future of space exploration seems likely to include a mix of large government funded missions as well as independent private-sector missions. 'The Long Space Age' examines the economic history of American space exploration and spaceflight, from early astronomical observatories to the International Space Station, and argues that the contemporary rise of private-sector efforts is the re-emergence of a long-run trend not a new phenomenon

Sujet - Collectivité

• United States National Aeronautics and Space Administration. -- History

Sujet - Nom commun

• Espace extra-atmosphérique -- Exploration -- Aspect économique -- États-Unis
• Conquête de l'espace -- États-Unis -- Histoire
• Astronautics and civilization
• Astronautics -- Economic aspects
• Astronautics -- United States -- History
• Cold War -- Economic aspects -- United States
• Manned space flight -- Economic aspects
• Space tourism

Sujet - Nom géographique

• Outer space -- Exploration -- Economic aspects -- United States
• United States -- History -- 20th century

Classification de la Bibliothèque du Congrès

• TL789.8.U5 M23 2017

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