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Index
numbers in bold indicate pages with illustrations
A
Abadzis, nick, 248
Abernathy, Ralph, 362–63
Abraham, Itty, 32
Abstract expressionism, 182–83
Acronyms and abbreviations, 425–27
Adams, Ansel, 285–86n26
Adams, Robert, 331–32
Adler, Hans, 68–69
Adorno,Theodor, 189
Advanced Research Projects Agency
(ARPA), 55; Project defender, 128
Aelita, 254, 256–60, 257n11
Africa: economic growth, 13;
migration from, 4, 5, 6, 8, 9, 10
African Americans: in Huntsville,
Alabama, 91, 94–104, 95n16, 105;
Spaceship earth and, 177–78;
treatment of in Germany, 100–101,
100–101nn31–32
Air Force. U.S., 349–50
Alabama A&M, 102–3, 102n35,
103n37
Alas, Babylon (Frank), 64
Aldrin, Buzz, 278, 279, 280, 300, 330
Alien “others,” 178
ALSOS, Project, 349
Amaldi, edoardi, 42, 43
American Academy of Arts and
Sciences (AAAS): Committee on
Space, 141, 142, 147, 148, 151;
Committee on Space eforts and
Society, 135; efects of space eforts,
studies of detection of, 148; efects
of space eforts, studies of evaluation
and feedback of information
about, 149–50; efects of space
eforts, studies on anticipation of
the, 142–47, 150–54; goal of, 135,
150–52; historians involvement in
studies, 142–43; historical analogies,
141–47, 150–54; mission of, 136;
nASA-funded study, 135–36,
138–39, 141–42; Railroad and the
Space Program, The (Mazlish), 141–47,
150–51; Second-Order Consequences
(Bauer, Rosenbloom, and Sharp),
142, 148; Social Indicators (Bauer),
142, 149–50; technology transfer
from space program to civilian use,
146
American exceptionalism, 24, 354,
355–60, 360n17, 384–85
American Patent Law Association, 68
American space program. See United
States space program
Americas, exploration of and
migration to, 4, 8
Ames Research Center, 411
Anderson, Ray, 242
Andrews, James, 119
Andrews, Scott, 304–7, 334–35
Anthropocene, 13
Anti-ballistic Missile (ABM) Treaty
(1972), 128, 129, 130
Antiballistic missile defense system,
124