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

Soyuz 15 mission, 227–28
Soyuz rockets, 306, 307–9, 308
Space Age: changes on earth during,
10–14; culture and, 208–10; curiosity
and urge to explore inspired by,
393–94; historical analysis by USA
Today, 37–39; individual memories
and visual representations, 157–58;
legitimacy as “Age,” xiii, 405;
nationalism and national identities
and, x–xi, 176–77, 184; as saltation,
ix, ix n1; signifcance of, 14–16;
spiritual meaning of, 174
Space and American Imagination
(McCurdy), 118
Space as Premonition (Kosmos kak
predchuvstvie), 265–66, 267
Space Cadet (Heinlein), 349
Space exploration: activity level of,
xii, xiii, 7–8, 364, 400–401; advance
in, ix; biological adaptations, 9, 10;
challenges and liberation in, 9–10,
359; Cold War and, 6–7, 55–56,
405; confict as beginning of, 6–7;
consequences of, studies of, 152;
continuation of, 15–16, 393–95,
401–4; cost of and funding for, 33,
392–93, 402; cultural preoccupation
with, 157–58, 399–400; culture and,
xi–xii, 118–19, 409–12; as folly, 3;
globalization and global identity and,
34–35, 200–202; history of, 86–87;
human spacefight, xiii; mythology
of, 18–35, 206–7, 209; pathogenic
load, 9–10; political economy of,
144–46; private space industry, 33,
116, 116n14, 371–72, 390–91, 411;
public involvement in, 409–12;
public support for, 37–38; rationales
for, 391–92; risks of, 7, 8; robotic
space probes, ix, 402n9; signifcance
of, 14–16; social and cultural
evolution, 9
Index 461
Space exploration Initiative (SeI),
134, 152, 372
Space Foundation, 392, 393
Space Frontier Foundation, 125
Space Launch Commercialization Act,
133
“Space Man—The Story of My Life”
(von Braun), 77
Space needle, 180
Space programs: founding fathers,
19–20, 30–32; historical basis
to support, 25–26; indigenous
technologies, 20–23, 21n6, 22n9,
22n11, 23n12, 32–33; justifcation
of, 27–30; nationalism and national
identities and, 17–19, 23–27, 27n25;
women and, 19n3. See also specifc
programs
Space Shuttle program: activity level
during, 364; commercialization and
militarization of space through, 123,
130–33; conservative space agenda
and, 125, 134; criticism of, 364, 365;
development of, justifcation for,
49; launch photographs, 305, 307,
309n55; liberal space agenda support
for, 123; Orbiter Processing Facilities,
315–16, 316; photographs of, 318,
318–20, 319; Student Involvement
Program, 412
Space Station Freedom, 126
Space suits, 346–47
Space telescopes, ix
Space Week, 390
Spacefight (Kosmicheskii reis), 260–62,
261, 264, 268, 268n35
Spacefight and the Myth of Presidential
Leadership (Launius and McCurdy),
122–23
Spacelab, 46
Spaceship earth, 175–78, 208, 390,
398
Spain, 49, 50