To touch the face of God : the sacred, the profane, and the American space program, 1957-1975 /
Oliver, Kendrick,1971-
Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press,
2013.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction: "The blasphemy of going up" -- "A power greater than any of us" : religion and secularity in the formation of the American space program -- "Signals of transcendence" : the rise and fall of space-age theology -- "Into the other world" : anticipations of spaceflight as religious experience -- "Perhaps a meaning to us" : the Apollo missions as religious experience -- "Evil triumphs when good men do nothing" : religious Americans and NASA in the autumn of the space age -- Epilogue.
United States. National Aeronautics and Space Administration
Astronautics
Religion and science
Astronautics
Christianity and politics