The long space age : the economic origins of space exploration from Colonial America to the Cold War /
An economic historian argues that privately funded space exploration is not a new development, but a trend beginning with the astronomical observatories of the nineteenth century Over the last half-century there has been a rapid expansion in commerce off the surface of our planet. Nations and corpor...
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| 语言: | 英语 |
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New Haven :
Yale University Press,
[2017]
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书本目录:
- Piety, pioneers, and patriots : the First American observatories
- Public spirit and patronage : American observatories
- Spaceflight, millionaires, and national defense : Robert Goddard's fund-raising program
- In the eyes of the world : the signaling value of apace exploration
- The next space patrons.