To touch the face of God [electronic resource] : the sacred, the profane and the American space program, 1957-1975 / Kendrick Oliver.
Material type: TextSeries: New series in NASA historyPublication details: Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2013. 2015)Description: 1 online resource (248 p.)ISBN:- 9781421408347
- 1421408341
- Christianity and politics -- United States -- History -- 20th century
- Astronautics -- Political aspects -- United States -- History -- 20th century
- Religion and science -- United States -- History -- 20th century
- Astronautics -- United States -- History -- 20th century
- United States. National Aeronautics and Space Administration -- History -- 20th century
- United States -- Politics and government -- 1945-1989
- United States -- Religion -- 20th century
- 629.40973/09046 23
- TL789.8.U5 O39 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.
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