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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 corpor...

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Détails bibliographiques
Cote:Libro Electrónico
Auteur principal: MacDonald, Alexander C. (Auteur)
Format: Électronique eBook
Langue:Inglés
Publié: New Haven : Yale University Press, [2017]
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Table des matières:
  • Piety, pioneers, and patriots : the First American observatories
  • Public spirit and patronage : American observatories
  • Spaceflight, millionaires, and national defense : Robert Goddard's fund-raising program
  • In the eyes of the world : the signaling value of apace exploration
  • The next space patrons.