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

456 ReMeMBeRInG THe SPACe AGe
national defense education Act
(ndeA), 55, 162–63
national Planning Association, 141
national Policy on the Commercial
Use of Space, 132
national Reconnaissance Ofce, 393
national Science Foundation, 61, 336
national Security Council (nSC),
60–61, 131
national Space Agency Centre
nationales des Études Spatiales
(CneS), 45
national Space Council, 133
national Space Policy (national
Security decision directive 42),
131–32
nationalism and national identities:
Chinese space program, 17, 27,
109, 117–18, 119–20; Indian space
program and, 17, 27; Russian space
program, 17, 24–25; space activity
contribution to, xii, 406; Space
Age and, x–xi, 176–77, 184; space
programs and, 17–19, 23–27, 27n25,
33–35; technology and national
prowess, 26–27, 58–64; U.S. space
program, 17, 24
Nation-State by Construction, A (Zhao),
110, 116–18
nATO Science Committee, 42
naval Research Laboratory, 356
navy, U.S., 349–50
Nebo zovët (Sky Calls), 262–63,
262n29
ne’eman, Yuval, 19
neher, Franz Ludwig, 78
neisser, Ulric, 203
nelson, Amy, 237–52, 422
neufeld, Michael J., 71–87, 118–19,
422
neustadt, Richard e., 154
new economic Policy (neP), 256,
256n8, 258–59
new Horizons mission, 313n63,
315n63, 316, 317
new natural, 185
new Soviet Man, 215
new York City department of
Bridges/Plant and Structures,
295–96, 297, 304
new York World’s Fair, 180
new Zealand, 4, 5–6, 8
news media photographers, 301,
303–7
niépce, Joseph nicéphore, 276
nigeria, 113
nimoy, Leonard, 178
niven, Larry, 347
nixon, Richard, 123, 127, 129, 170,
356–57, 365, 400–401
noble, david, 56n7
nora, Pierre, 206
nordhausen, Germany, 71–72, 72,
72n2, 76, 77, 80, 81–82, 85, 86
north Korea, 19n2
nuclear and Space Talks (nST), 129
nuclear programs and weapons:
atomic diplomacy, ix n1, 57–58,
64–69; Atomic Peace Ship, 62–63;
Atoms-for-Peace program, 62;
indigenous technologies, 32;
perception of, 63–64; proliferation
of, 23n14; ROVeR program, 69;
U.S. foreign policy and, 61–64
O
Of a Fire on the Moon (Mailer), 174,
301
Ofce of Commercial Space
Transportation, 133
Ofce of defense Mobilization
(OdM), 62; Science Advisory
Committee (SAC), 58, 58–59n13
Ofce of Research and Intelligence
Reporting, 61