This highly acclaimed study approaches the space race as a
problem in comparative public policy. Drawing on published
literature, archival sources in both the United States and Europe,
interviews with many of the key participants, and important
declassified material, such as the National Security Council's
first policy paper on space, McDougall examines U.S., European, and
Soviet space programs and their politics. Opening with a short
account of Nikolai Kibalchich, a late nineteenth-century Russian
rocketry theoretician, McDougall argues that the Soviet Union made
its way into space first because it was the world's first
"technocracy"--which he defines as "the institutionalization of
technological change for state purpose." He also explores the
growth of a political economy of technology in both the Soviet
Union and the United States.
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