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Moxy Früvous, 247
MTS billboard campaign, 232–33, 233
Multinational corporations, 197–200
Mumford, Lewis, 174, 193
Muncy, James A. M., 125
Murray, Charles, 395
Music: Laika-inspired, 239–40,
242–43, 244, 245, 246–48, 249,
251–52; technology for, 241
“Muttnik, the First dog in Space,”
248
Mutual assured destruction (MAd)
strategy, 127, 129
Muybridge, edward, 284
My Life as a Dog, 239, 243–44
Myth of the Machine, The (Mumford),
193
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nagasaki, 63
narratives:American exceptionalism,
24, 354, 355–60, 360n17, 384–85;
conspiracy theories, 353–54, 373–84;
cosmonaut myth, 214–17, 216;
master narratives, 350, 384–85;
nASA, image creation by, 167–72,
208–10; reality, memory, and
meaning, xi–xii; Soviet counternarratives,
221–23, 226–28; Soviet
master narrative, 217–21; Soviet
narrative, collapse of, 224–28; Star
Trek narrative, 411; U.S. space
program narratives, 353–85. See also
Culture; Memory
national Advisory Committee for
Aeronautics (nACA), 55, 355–56
national Aeronautics and Space Act
(1958), 45, 57, 64–69, 355
national Aeronautics and Space
Administration (nASA): atomic
diplomacy and, ix n1, 57–58, 64–69;
budget of, 125–26, 164–66, 356,
362–63, 364, 372, 393; Commercial
Index 455
Space Policy, 133; Commercial
Technology Program, 29; criticism
of goals of, 63, 360–72; dOd’s
relationship with, 64, 65–67;
employment numbers, 164, 356;
european space program, role
in, 40–41, 45–46, 51–53; flms
produced by, 171; formation
of, 55–58, 64–69, 162, 355–56;
History division, x; History Ofce,
151–52; history use by, 151–52;
image creation by, 167–72, 208–10;
industrial photographs, 316, 318,
319, 319–20; institutional culture
of, 210; intellectual property rights,
68–69; international collaboration
policy, 45, 51–53; justifcation of,
28–29, 48–49, 410; labor force
photographs, 309–16, 313, 315,
316, 317; laboratories, 57, 57n8;
liaison committees, 66–67; national
prestige and, 58, 63; Ofce of Public
Afairs, 171; Ofce of Strategic
Communications Planning, 410;
photographers, 304, 307–9, 309n55;
reform of, calls for, 133–34; return
on R&d investment, 371; space race,
entrance into, 162; Spinof, 28–29;
Sustaining University Program,
141; as technocracy, 56–58, 69–70;
technology transfer from space
program to civilian use (spinofs),
146, 169, 171, 173;Technology
Utilization Program, 28; transition of
nACA into, 55
national Aeronautics and Space
Council, 66
national Aero-Space Plane (nASP),
124
national Air and Space Museum, 171,
336; Space History division, x
national Archives, xii
national Commission on Space, 412