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001 2012017651
003 DLC
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008 120522s2013 mdua b 001 0 eng
010 $a 2012017651
020 $a9781421407883 (hbk. : acid-free paper)
020 $a1421407884 (hbk. : acid-free paper)
020 $a9781421408347 (electronic)
020 $a1421408341 (electronic)
040 $aDLC$cDLC$dDLC
042 $apcc
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050 00 $aTL789.8.U5$bO39 2013
082 00 $a629.40973/09046$223
100 1 $aOliver, Kendrick,$d1971-
245 10 $aTo touch the face of God :$bthe sacred, the profane and the American space program, 1957-1975 /$cKendrick Oliver.
260 $aBaltimore :$bJohns Hopkins University Press,$cc2013.
300 $axiii, 229 p. :$bill. ;$c24 cm.
490 0 $aNew series in NASA history
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505 0 $aIntroduction: "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.
650 0 $aAstronautics$zUnited States$xHistory$y20th century.
650 0 $aReligion and science$zUnited States$xHistory$y20th century.
650 0 $aAstronautics$xPolitical aspects$zUnited States$xHistory$y20th century.
650 0 $aChristianity and politics$zUnited States$xHistory$y20th century.
610 10 $aUnited States.$bNational Aeronautics and Space Administration$xHistory$y20th century.
651 0 $aUnited States$xReligion$y20th century.
651 0 $aUnited States$xPolitics and government$y1945-1989.