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Destined for the Stars: Faith, the Future, and America’s Final Frontier
University of Pittsburgh Press, 2019 Cloth: 978-0-8229-4556-7 | eISBN: 978-0-8229-8665-2 Library of Congress Classification TL790.N49 2019 Dewey Decimal Classification 629.41
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Where did humanity get the idea that outer space is a frontier waiting to be explored? Destined for the Stars unravels the popularization of the science of space exploration in America between 1944 and 1955, arguing that the success of the US space program was due not to technological or economic superiority, but was sustained by a culture that had long believed it was called by God to settle new frontiers and prepare for the inevitable end of time and God’s final judgment. Religious forces, Newell finds, were in no small way responsible for the crescendo of support for and interest in space exploration in the early 1950s, well before Project Mercury—the United States’ first human spaceflight program—began in 1959. See other books on: Exploration | Faith | Future | In art | Stars See other titles from University of Pittsburgh Press |
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