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

Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA), 70
Tensions of europe network and
research collaboration, 153
Tereshkova, Valentina, 390
Terkel, Studs, 311–12
Thailand, 113
Thelen, david, 381–82
Things to Come, 345
Thinking in Time (neustadt and May),
154
Time Machine, The, 350
Tolstoy, Aleksei, 254, 258, 259
Transparency International, 149
Transportation, U.S. department of
(dOT), 132–33
Trickle down economics, 125
Truman, Harry, 349
Tsander, Fridrikh, 211
Tsereteli, nikolai, 257
Tsiolkovskii, Konstantin, 24–25,
211–14, 213, 234, 253, 261–62, 270,
393
Tsiolkovskii conferences, 211
Turner, Frederick Jackson, 24, 126,
383
2001: A Space Odyssey, 174, 379
Tyson, neil deGrasse, 392
U
U-2 spy plane fights, 160
Uchitel, Aleksei, 265–66, 268
UFO sightings, 168
Ulam, Stanislaus, 69
Uncompromised Integrity, 197–98
United nations: Committee on
the Peaceful Use of Outer Space
(COPUOS), 177; educational,
Scientifc and Cultural Organization
(UneSCO), 47–48; Ofce for Outer
Space Afairs, 390; Space Week, 390
United Space Alliance technician,
315–16, 316
Index 463
United States: activist government
spending, 357–58; American
exceptionalism, 24, 354, 355–60,
360n17, 384–85; anti-satellite
(ASAT) missile events, 112;
conservative movement, 121–22;
foreign policy, 51–53; foreign policy
and nuclear technology, 61–64;
Germans, treatment of in, 101,
105; globalization and, 194–95,
194n23–24; liberal government
agenda, 357–58; military advantages,
399; rights revolution, 122; science
fction interests, 63–64, 115, 158–60,
177–78; slave labor system, 98–99;
trickle down economics, 125
United States space program:
achievements of, 18, 34–35;
activity level of, xii, xiii, 7–8, 364,
400–401; anti-German prejudice,
82–83; commercialization and
militarization of space, 123;
conservative space agenda, 121–34,
365, 366–72; conspiracy theories,
353–54; continuation of, 393–95,
401–4; disasters and operational
crises, 146, 184, 203; founding
fathers, 19, 30–32; frontier thesis,
118, 123–24, 123–24n9; funding
for, 392, 393; hero images and
celebrity status, 163–64, 167–70;
ideological debate over, 122–23;
indigenous technologies, 22, 22n9,
32–33; industrial policy, 48–49;
justifcation of, 28–29, 48–49,
410; liberal space agenda, 123–24,
360–66; management of, 146–47;
military dimension of, 41–42, 399,
406; narratives of, 353–85; national
prestige and, 58–64; nationalism and,
17, 24; political economy of, 145–46;
public involvement in, 409–12;
public support for, 118, 363; reform