PALGRAVE STUDIES IN THE HISTORY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY
J. Logsdon
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TWARDA
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Palgrave Macmillan US
ISBN:
9780230110106
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While there are many biographies of JFK and accounts of the early years of US space efforts this book uses primary source material and interviews with key participants to providea comprehensive account of how the actions taken by JFKs administration have shaped the course of the US space program over thWe Should Go to the Moon Before the White House Making the Transition Getting Started First Decisions Theres Nothing More Important Space Plans Reviewed A Great New American Enterprise First Steps on the Way to the Moon I Am Not That Interested in Space Early Attempts at Space Cooperation To the Moon Together: Pursuit of an Illusion? Apollo under Pressure Were Changes in the Wind? John F. Kennedy and theEchoes of this time lift off the pages of John F. Kennedy and the Race to the Moon a new book by John M. Logsdon a political scientist and longtime space policy specialist at George Washington University. He has drawn on new research in archives oral histories and memoirs available in recent years to shed new light on the moon race. The New York Times Some say that Kennedy conceived of the race to the moon principally to recover from the fiasco of the Bay of Pigs. John Logsdon the doyen of American space studies takes a more generous view in his new book Kennedy was not especially interested in space and said as much in private. But after the Soviet Union sent Yuri Gagarin into orbit he believed it to be vital for America to take on and beat the Soviets at something very hard. The moon fitted this need like a glove. Planting a man on its surface required no big technological innovations says Mr. Logsdon just very expensive mastery over nature using the scientific and technological knowledge available in 1961. The Economist/Logsdon charts the evolution of JFKs thinking about space including repeated offers as president to cooperate with the Soviets from his senatorial career up until the assassination. He chronicles the intergovernmental struggle for consensus and highlights the policymaking contributions of presidential aide Ted Sorensen science advisor Jerome Wiesner Vice President Lyndon Johnson and NASA administrator James Webb. Kirkus/For the inside facts about JFKs instigation of the lunar missions Logsdon often seen in documentaries and television news about space is the definitive authority. Booklist/A new account by John Logsdon an eminent historian of the space program. The Washington Monthly/The Apollo story has been told many times but Logsdons analysis provides a welcome reexamination of the motives rationales and political infighting that characterized the Kennedy administrations space policies. Recommended. CHOICE/In a time when America is looking for another Sputnik Moment to spur the country on a number of fronts this scholarly and wellwritten look at the nations Apollo Moment captures presidential decisionmaking stemming from the heat of the space race between the United States and the former Soviet Union. ReaWymiary: 619 gr 155 mm 235 mm
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