• Media type: Book
  • Title: To touch the face of God : the sacred, the profane, and the American space program, 1957 - 1975
  • Contains: Introduction: "The blasphemy of going up" -- "A power greater than any of us" : religion and secularity in the formation of the American space program -- "Signals of transcendence" : the rise and fall of space-age theology -- "Into the other world" : anticipations of spaceflight as religious experience -- "Perhaps a meaning to us" : the Apollo missions as religious experience -- "Evil triumphs when good men do nothing" : religious Americans and NASA in the autumn of the space age -- Epilogue.
  • Contributor: Oliver, Kendrick [Author]
  • imprint: Baltimore, Md.: Johns Hopkins Univ. Press, 2013
  • Published in: New series in NASA history
  • Extent: XIII, 229 S.; Ill
  • Language: English
  • ISBN: 1421407884; 9781421407883; 1421408341; 9781421408347
  • RVK notation: ZO 8050 : Geschichte der Weltraumfahrt und Raketentechnik
  • Keywords: USA > Raumfahrtprogramm > Politik > Religion > Geschichte 1957-1975
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  • Footnote: Includes bibliographical references and index

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