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Rocket Dreams: How the Space Age Shaped Our Vision of a World Beyond
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Rocket Dreams: How the Space Age Shaped Our Vision of a World Beyond Paperback - 2004

by Marina Benjamin

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  • Title Rocket Dreams: How the Space Age Shaped Our Vision of a World Beyond
  • Author Marina Benjamin
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition [ Edition: First ]
  • Condition Used - Good Condition
  • Pages 242
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Free Press, Old Tappan, New Jersey
  • Date 2004-02-02
  • Features Bibliography, Index, Table of Contents
  • Bookseller's Inventory # 6837495
  • ISBN 9780743255349 / 0743255348
  • Weight 0.53 lbs (0.24 kg)
  • Dimensions 8.41 x 5.46 x 0.65 in (21.36 x 13.87 x 1.65 cm)
  • Themes
    • Chronological Period: 20th Century
    • Chronological Period: 1950-1999
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 2002045590
  • Dewey Decimal Code 303.483

Summary

Remember when the race to the moon held the rapt attention of millions? Remember the Apollo missions that were supposed to herald the beginning of the Space Age? Thirty years after the last moonwalk, those missions now appear to have ushered in an era's conclusion. What happened?
Marina Benjamin has been asking that question ever since her childhood fascination with space exploration ended in disappointment. Rocket Dreams is her thought-provoking look at the Space Age and the shadow it casts on the fabric of our modern lives. When the futuristic expectations we pinned on Apollo came crashing back to earth, Benjamin argues, new phenomena took up the cause. Pulling movies, literature, junk culture, and the Internet into an irreverent alternative account of the post-Apollo years, she links the demise of the Space Age to groups like the "church" of Noetics -- founded by astronaut Edgar Mitchell -- to the spread of UFO believers, even to the birth of fantasy literature. Propelling us through the golden age of Space Age-dreaming during the seventies and eighties, Benjamin finally touches down on...the Web. Has cyberspace become the new frontier we once thought outer space would be?
From Florida's overgrown rocket graveyards to Roswell, New Mexico, and beyond, this skillful blend of history and social observation examines the rise and fall of America's space obsession as never before.

First line

The drive east from Orlando to Cape Canaveral offers few distractions; no bustling towns, no enclaves of industry, no arresting examples of modern architecture.

From the jacket flap

From the first landings on the moon, UFOs and Extra-Terrestrials, to the implications of our cyber worlds, this is a provocative and profound look at our fascination with space.

Media reviews

Publishers Weekly Elegantly written....Space buffs will appreciate many aspects of [Marina Benjamin's] story.