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April 01 2014
Realizing the New Aerospace History
Alexander C. T. Geppert, Ed.
Imagining Outer Space: European Astroculture in the Twentieth Century
. : Palgrave Macmillan
, 2012
. xxix + 393 pp., color plates, notes, index. ISBN 978-0-230-23172-6. $105.00 (hardcover).Matthew H. Hersch.
Inventing the American Astronaut
. : Palgrave Macmillan
, 2012
. x + 219 pp., illus., notes, selected biblio., index. ISBN 978-1-137-02528-9. $27.00 (paper).David P. D. Munns.
A Single Sky: How an International Community Forged the Science of Radio Astronomy
. : MIT Press
, 2013
. x + 247 pp., illus., biblio., index. ISBN 978-0-262-01833-3. $34.00, £23.95 (hardcover).Kendrick Oliver.
To Touch the Face of God: The Sacred, the Profane, and the American Space Program, 1957–1975
. : Johns Hopkins University Press
, 2013
. xii + 229 pp., illus., biblio. essay, index. ISBN 978-1-4214-0788-3. $35.96 (hardcover).Phil Tiemeyer.
Plane Queer: Labor, Sexuality, and AIDS in the History of Male Flight Attendants
. : University of California Press
, 2013
. vii + 288 pp., illus., biblio., index. ISBN 978-0-520-27477-8. $24.95 (paper).Peter J. Westwick, Ed.
Blue Sky Metropolis: The Aerospace Century in Southern California
. Foreword by William Deverell. : University of California Press
; : Huntington Library
, 2012
. xii + 308 pp., illus., biblio., index. ISBN 978-087328249-0. $44.95, £30.95 (hardcover).
Roger D. Launius
Roger D. Launius
Collections and Curatorial Affairs, National Air and Space Museum, Smithsonian Institution, P.O. Box 37012, MRC 311, Washington, DC 20013-7012; [email protected].
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Historical Studies in the Natural Sciences (2014) 44 (2): 187–195.
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Roger D. Launius; Realizing the New Aerospace History. Historical Studies in the Natural Sciences 1 April 2014; 44 (2): 187–195. doi: https://doi.org/10.1525/hsns.2014.44.2.187
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