Gigantic follies? Human exploration and the space age in long-term historical perspective / J.R. McNeill
Spaceflight in the national imagination / Asif A. SIddiqi
Building space capability through European regional collaboration / John Krige
Imaging an aerospace agency in the atomic age / Robert R. MacGregor
Creating a memory of the German rocket program for the cold war / Michael J. Neufeld
Operation Paperclip in Huntsville, Alabama / Monique Laney
The great leap upward: China's human spaceflight program and Chinese national identity / James R. Hansen
"The 'right' stuff: the Reagan revolution and the U.S. space program" / Andrew J. Butrica
Great (unfulfilled) expectations: to boldly go where no social scientist or historian has gone before / Jonathan Coopersmith
Far out: the space age in American culture / Emily S. Rosenberg
A second nature rising: spaceflight in an era of representation / Martin Collins
Creating memories: myth, identity, and culture in the Russian space age / Slava Gerovitch
The music of memory and forgetting: global echoes of Sputnik II / Amy Nelson
From the cradle to the grave: cosmonaut nostalgia in Soviet and post-Soviet film / Cathleen S. Lewis
Examining the iconic and rediscovering the photography of space exploration in context to the history of photography / Michael Soluri
Robert A. Heinlein's influence on spaceflight / Robert G. Kennedy, III
American spaceflight history's master narrative and the meaning of memory / Robert D. Launius
A melancholic space age anniversary / Walter A. McDougall
Has space development made a difference? / John Logsdon
Has there been a space age? / Sylvia Kraemer
Cultural functions of space exploration / Linda Billings
About the authors
Acronyms and abbreviations
NASA history series
Index.