Space travel and culture : from Apollo to space tourism / edited by Martin Parker and David Bell - Malden, MA : Wiley-Blackwell/Sociological Review, c2009 - 223 p. : ill. ; 23 cm. - Sociological review monographs . - Sociological review monographs .

Includes bibliographical references and index

Introduction : making space / œ Checklist : the secret life of Apollo’s ’fourth crewmember’ / Political history of NASA’s space shuttle : the development years, 1972-1982 / Geostationary orbit : a critical legal geography of space’s most valuable real estate / Cosmos as capitalism’s outside / Capitalists in space / ˜r Martin Parker -- œt Space is the (non)place : Martians, Marxists, and the outer space of the radical imagination / Space race and Soviet utopian thinking / Archaeology of space exploration / Giant leaps and forgotten steps : NASA and the performance of gender / Idealized heroes of ’retrotopia’ : history, identity and the postmodern in Apollo 13 / Middle America, the moon, the sublime and the uncanny / Re-thinking Apollo : envisioning environmentalism in space / Conclusion : to infinity and beyond? / Matthew H. Hersch -- Brian Woods -- Christy Collis -- Peter Dickens -- Stevphen Shukaitis -- Iina Kohonen -- Alice Gorman -- Daniel Sage -- Dario Llinares -- Darren Jorgensen -- Holly Henry and Amanda Taylor -- Warren Smith

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Astronautics--History
Outer space--Exploration--History
Astronautics--Social aspects
Astronautics and civilization
Astronautics--Political aspects
Space tourism
Popular culture