Spaceflight dreams and military imperatives -- The Cold War space race -- Space science and exploration -- A global space infrastructure -- Astroculture : spaceflight and the imagination -- Human spaceflight after the cold war -- Epilogue : the past and future of spaceflight.
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The author presents a history of spaceflight, from military rocketry through Sputnik, Apollo, robots in space, space culture, and human spaceflight in the twenty-first century. Spaceflight is one of the great human achievements of the twentieth century. The Soviets launched Sputnik, the first satellite, in 1957; less than twelve years later, the American Apollo astronauts landed on the Moon. In this volume, the author maps the spectrum of activities that humans have developed in space.