Since the dawn of spaceflight, advocates of a robust space effort
have argued that human activity beyond earth makes a significant
difference in everyday life. Assertions abound about the "impact"
of spaceflight on society and its relationship to the larger
contours of human existence. Fifty years after the Space age began,
it is time to examine the effects of spaceflight on society in a
historically rigorous way. Has the Space age indeed had a
significant effect on society? If so, what are those influences?
What do we mean by an "impact" on society? And what parts of
society? Conversely, has society had any effect on spaceflight?
What would be different had there been no Space age? The purpose of
this volume is to examine these and related questions through
scholarly research, making use especially of the tools of the
historian and the broader social sciences and humanities. Herein a
stellar array of scholars does just that, and arrives at sometimes
surprising conclusions. Once contemplated, the subject is broad,
rich and stimulating. Spaceflight has commercial and economic
dimensions, as well as social, cultural, and ideological
ramifications. It touches on enduring American values of
pioneering, progress, enterprise, and rugged individualism.
Worldwide it encompasses international cooperation and competition,
and affects foreign policies, national security, and questions of
the global environment. Viewing earth from space, and space from
the vicinity of earth, alters world views, conceptions of self and
others, and understandings of our place and purpose in the
universe.
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