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100 1  Neal, Valerie,|eauthor. 
245 10 Spaceflight in the shuttle era and beyond :|bredefining 
       humanity's purpose in space /|cValerie Neal. 
264  1 New Haven ;|aLondon :|bYale University Press,|c[2017] 
264  4 |c©2017 
300    xiii, 270 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates :
       |billustrations (some color) ;|c25 cm 
336    text|btxt|2rdacontent 
337    unmediated|bn|2rdamedia 
338    volume|bnc|2rdacarrier 
504    Includes bibliographical references and index. 
505 0  Spaceflight : discerning its meaning -- Space shuttle : 
       going to work in space -- Astronauts : reinventing the 
       right stuff -- Science : doing research in space -- Space 
       station : campaigning for a permanent human presence in 
       space -- Plans : envisioning the future in space -- Memory
       : preserving meaning. 
520 8  An exploration of the changing conceptions of the iconic 
       Space Shuttle and a call for a new vision of spaceflight 
       The thirty years of Space Shuttle flights saw contrary 
       changes in American visions of space. Valerie Neal, who 
       has spent much of her career examining the Space Shuttle 
       program, uses this iconic vehicle to question over four 
       decades' worth of thinking about, and struggling with, the
       meaning of human spaceflight. She examines the ideas, 
       images, and icons that emerged as NASA, Congress, 
       journalists, and others sought to communicate rationales 
       for, or critiques of, the Space Shuttle missions. At times
       concurrently, the Space Shuttle was billed as delivery 
       truck and orbiting science lab, near-Earth station and 
       space explorer, costly disaster and pinnacle of 
       engineering success. The book's multidisciplinary approach
       reveals these competing depictions to examine the meaning 
       of the spaceflight enterprise. Given the end of the Space 
       Shuttle flights in 2011, Neal makes an appeal to reframe 
       spaceflight once again to propel humanity forward. 
650  0 Space flights. 
650  0 Space shuttles. 
650  7 HISTORY|xSocial History.|2bisacsh 
650  7 SCIENCE|xHistory.|2bisacsh 
650  7 TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING|xAeronautics & Astronautics.
       |2bisacsh 
650  7 Space flights.|2fast|0(OCoLC)fst01127721 
650  7 Space shuttles.|2fast|0(OCoLC)fst01127852 
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