Remembering the Space Age. - Black Vault Radio Network (BVRN)

444 ReMeMBeRInG THe SPACe AGe
120; energy use, 12; exploration of
and migration to, 4; international
community, integration in, 113;
liberal nationalism, 117, 120; national
identity, 109–20; nationalities in,
110; nativism, 117, 120; Olympics,
120; pragmatic nationalism,
116–17, 120; rocketry birthplace,
26; science fction interests, 115;
space benefactor club, 113; space
exploration, enthusiasm for, 114–15;
urbanization, 12
China national Tourism
Administration (CnTA), 109–10
China Space Technology Group, 109
China’s Quest for National Identity
(dittmer and Kim), 110, 111
Chinese space program: achievements
of, 18, 35;ASAT missile events,
112, 112n4, 113, 113n5; budget of,
392; development of, ix, 399, 412;
founding father, 19; hero images and
celebrity status, 119–20; indigenous
technologies, 23, 33; ISS, exclusion
from, 113, 114; justifcation of, 29;
missile and rocket development, 33,
111; Moon missions, 115–16; nASA
ofcials’ visit to, 113–16; nationalism
and, 17, 27, 109, 117–18, 119–20;
public support for, 114–15, 119–20;
satellite launches, 113; Shenzhou
V, 111, 118, 119; technology and
national prowess, 27
Citizen’s Action Committee for Space,
345
Clark, Katerina, 219
Clarke, Arthur C., 158, 174, 393, 399,
401
Clinton, Bill, 376
Clinton, George, 247
Clinton, Hillary Rodham, 372
Close, Chuck, 333
Cochran,Thomas, 146
Cold War: satellite use during,
127–28; space exploration and, 6–7,
55–56, 405; space race as Cold War
battleground, 127–28, 158–67, 368;
spy satellites, signifcance of, 14–15
Collective memory, 205–6, 205–6n13
Collier’s, 77, 86, 169, 349, 400
Collins, Martin J., xi, 185–202,
231–32, 409–10, 414
Columbia, 130, 131, 152, 203, 318
Columbus, Christopher, 4
Coming of Post-Industrial Society (Bell),
191–92
Commercial Space Launch Act, 133,
371
Commercial Space Policy (nASA),
133
Commercial Technology Program
(nASA), 29
Commercialization and militarization
of oceans, 126
Commercialization and militarization
of space, 123, 126–33, 371–72. See
also Private space industry
Committee for the Future, 412
Committee on Space Research
(COSPAR), 45
Common Market, 47
Communication satellites, 14, 15
Communications Satellite
Corporation (Comsat), 170
Concentration camps, 81–82, 86, 106.
See also Mittelbau-dora labor camp
Concorde, 47
Confucius, 109–10
Congress, U.S.: Manned Space
Flight Subcommittee, 170; Science
Committee, 171
Conquest of Space,The (Bonestell and
Ley), 159
Conrad, Charles Pete, 278–80, 281,
285