Apollo in the Age of Aquarius / Neil M. Maher.
Apollo in the Age of Aquarius / Neil M. Maher.
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Cambridge, Massachusetts : Harvard University Press, 2017.
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G 2017/1846
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English
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360 pages ; 24 cm
Content type
text
Media type
unmediated
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volume
Contents
Introduction : Launching the Sixties -- Spaceship Earth : civil rights and NASA's war on poverty -- Shooting (from) the moon : NASA, nature, and the New Left during the Vietnam War era -- Thinking globally, acting locally : Cape Canaveral and whole earth environmentalism -- Heavenly bodies : "manned...
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Cambridge, Massachusetts : Harvard University Press, 2017.
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Massachusetts
Date Published
2017.
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The summer of 1969 saw astronauts land on the moon for the first time and hippie hordes descend on Woodstock for a legendary music festival. For Neil M. Maher, the conjunction of these two era-defining events is not entirely coincidental. Apollo in the Age of Aquarius shows how the celestial aspirations of NASA's Apollo space program were tethered...
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Apollo in the Age of Aquarius / Neil M. Maher.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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©2017
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G 2017/1846
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74VKVad5a3mb
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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/74VKVad5a3mb
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ISBN
067497199X hardcover ; alkaline paper
9780674971998 hardcover ; alkaline paper
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629.454
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991024099974302626
