Book ID: CBB799400402

Militarizing Outer Space: Astroculture, Dystopia and the Cold War (2021)

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Militarizing Outer Space explores the dystopian and destructive dimensions of the Space Age and challenges conventional narratives of a bipolar Cold War rivalry. Concentrating on weapons, warfare and vio​lence, this provocative volume examines real and imagined endeavors of arming the skies and conquering the heavens. The third and final volume in the groundbreaking ​European Astroculture trilogy, ​Militarizing Outer Space zooms in on the interplay between security, technopolitics and knowledge from the 1920s through the 1980s. Often hailed as the site of heavenly utopias and otherworldly salvation, outer space transformed from a promised sanctuary to a present threat, where the battles of the future were to be waged. Astroculture proved instrumental in fathoming forms and functions of warfare’s futures past, both on earth and in space. The allure of dominating outer space, the book shows, was neither limited to the early twenty-first century nor to current American space force rhetorics.

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Review Matthew Shindell (2022) Review of "Limiting Outer Space: Astroculture After Apollo". Centaurus: International Magazine of the History of Mathematics, Science, and Technology (pp. 779-781). unapi

Review Rick W. Sturdevant (2021) Review of "Militarizing Outer Space: Astroculture, Dystopia and the Cold War". Air Power History (p. 61). unapi

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Authors & Contributors
Siddiqi, Asif A.
Launius, Roger D.
Alexander MacDonald
Wråkberg, Urban
Volland, Nicolai
Spires, David N.
Concepts
Space travel; space flight
Space programs
Space research and exploration
Cold War
Science and culture
Rockets; rocketry
Time Periods
20th century, late
20th century
21st century
20th century, early
19th century
18th century
Places
United States
Soviet Union
Americas
Arctic regions
North Korea
Greenland
Institutions
United States. National Aeronautics and Space Administration
United States Air Force (USAF)
United States Space Force (USSF)
United States. Department of Defense
Project Apollo (NASA)
European Space Research Organisation
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