The Heavens and the Earth
Subtitle: A Political History of the Space Age
Publisher: Basic Books
Published: September 1986
Language: eng
Number of pages: 555
ISBN-13: 9780465028887
First sentence: Three hundred sixty million years ago, we are told, there lived a fish we call Eusthenopteron.
Description: The space race started when America and Russia split the German rocket-scientist bounty at the end of World War II.  It intensified and grew under the Cold War, and eventually subsided into mostly secret military activity as contradictions within both America and Russia sapped vitality from the race.  This book covers the space race's 25 year run from the 50s to the 70s as a political entity in America under Eisenhower and Johnson and in Russia under Khrushchev.
Table of contents: title: Illustrations
pagenum: x; title: Abbreviations used in the text
pagenum: xi; title: Preface
pagenum: xiv; title: Introduction
pagenum: 3; label: I
title: The Genesis of Sputnik; label: 1
title: The Human Seed and Social Soil: Rocketry and Revolution
pagenum: 20; label: 2
title: Political Rains and First Fruit:  The Cold War and Sputnik
pagenum: 41; title: Conclusion
pagenum: 63; label: II
title: Modern Arms and Free Men:  America Before Sputnik; label: 3
title: Bashful Behemoth: Technology, the State, and the Birth of Deterrence
pagenum: 74; label: 4
title: While Waiting for Technocracy:  The ICBM and the First American Space Program
pagenum: 97; label: 5
title: The Satellite Decision
pagenum: 112; title: Conclusion
pagenum: 132; label: III
title: Vanguard and Rearguard:  Eisenhower and the Setting of American Space Policy; label: 6
title: "A New Era of History" and a Media Riot
pagenum: 141; label: 7
title: The Birth of NASA
pagenum: 157; label: 8
title: A Space Strategy for the United States
pagenum: 177; label: 9
title: Sparrow in the Falcon's Nest
pagenum: 195; label: 10
title: The Shape of Things to Come
pagenum: 210; title: Conclusion
pagenum: 227; label: IV
title: Parabolic Ballad:  Khrushchev and the Setting of Soviet Space Policy; label: 11
title: Party Line
pagenum: 237; label: 12
title: The Missile Bluff
pagenum: 250; label: 13
title: Hammers or Sickles in Space?
pagenum: 264; label: 14
title: Space Age Communism: The Khrushchevian Synthesis
pagenum: 276; title: Conclusion
pagenum: 294; label: V
title: Kennedy, Johnson, and the Technocratic Temptation; label: 15
title: Destination Moon
pagenum: 307; label: 16
title: Hooded Falcons: Space Technology and Assured Destruction
pagenum: 325; label: 17
title: Benign Hypocrisy:  American Space Diplomacy
pagenum: 344; label: 18
title: Big Operator:  James Webb's Space Age America
pagenum: 361; label: 19
title: Second Thoughts
pagenum: 389; title: Conclusion
pagenum: 403; label: VI
title: The Heavens and the Earth: The First Twenty-Five Years; label: 20
title: Voyages to Tsiolkovskia
pagenum: 415; label: 21
title: The Quest for G.O.D.
pagenum: 436; label: 22
title: A Fire in the Sun
pagenum: 450; title: Appendix
pagenum: 462; title: Abbreviations Used in Notes
pagenum: 466; title: Notes
pagenum: 466; title: Index
pagenum: 537