The Spacefaring Earth: A History of the Space Age

by Michael G. Smith

This engaging survey of the Space Age links science and technology with politics and popular culture, war and peace, and crises and controversies. It examines the history of spaceflight as a mirror of human thought and action across the Earth.

The volume encompasses the new astronomy and sciences of the modern era, the early dreamers and pioneers after 1903, the national competitions of the First World War, the rocket states that prepared...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1032780711
• ISBN13: 9781032780719
• Release Date: December 2024
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 296 Pages