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The Long Space Age : The Economic Origins of Space Exploration from Colonial America to the Cold War /
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 corpo...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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New Haven, CT :
Yale University Press,
[2018]
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Frontmatter
- CONTENTS
- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
- INTRODUCTION
- 1. Piety, Pioneers, and Patriots: The First American Observatories
- 2. Public Spirit and Patronage: American Observatories
- 3. Spaceflight, Millionaires, and National Defense: Robert Goddard's Fund-Raising Program
- 4. In the Eyes of the World: The Signaling Value of Space Exploration
- The Next Space Patrons
- Notes
- INDEX