Macauley, William R. (Author)
History and Technology
Volume: 28, no. 3
Issue: 3
Pages: 281-309
Edition Details: Part of a special issue, “Rethinking the Space Age: Astroculture and Technoscience”
Language: English
Prior to the launch of Sputnik, knowledge about human space travel was widely circulated by spaceflight proponents, scientists and news producers in mainstream cul- ture through print, film and broadcast media and displayed in public sites such as museums and public exhibition spaces. Focusing on the timeframe 1947-1953, this article examines how key members of the British Interplanetary Society used a combination of craft skills, graphical technologies, and communication media to create pictures and models to support rhetorical claims that spaceflight and astronautics are legitimate fields of scientific research and space travel could and should be achieved in the near future. Production and circulation of factual knowledge about space travel was not confined to material and discursive practices in established fields such as astronomy and aeronautical engineering. Actors from other professional, non-professional, and social groups contributed to the realization of future spaceflight as an heterogeneous cultural endeavor or astroculture encompassing an array of technical processes, artifacts, craft skills, and scientific knowledge.[ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
...MoreDescription On the British Interplanetary Society in the period 1947--1953.
Article Geppert, Alexander C. T. (2012) Introduction Rethinking the Space Age: Astroculture and Technoscience. History and Technology (pp. 219-223).
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