This highly acclaimed study approaches the space race as a problem in comparative public policy. Drawing on published literature; archival sources in both the United States and Europe; interviews with many of the key participants; and important declassified material; such as the National Security Council's first policy paper on space; McDougall examines U.S.; European; and Soviet space programs and their politics. Opening with a short account of Nikolai Kibalchich; a late nineteenth-century Russian rocketry theoretician; McDougall argues that the Soviet Union made its way into space first because it was the world's first "technocracy"―which he defines as "the institutionalization of technological change for state purpose." He also explores the growth of a political economy of technology in both the Soviet Union and the United States.
#7038847 in Books Cornell University Press 1975-09-30Original language:EnglishPDF # 1 8.50 x .79 x 5.50l; .0 #File Name: 0801491584354 pages
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0 of 0 people found the following review helpful. It is good.By Akoa KofiI guess emerging scholars have to read this book before Turner's later books. It is good.
