The long space age : the economic origins of space exploration from colonial America to the Cold War / Alexander MacDonald.

9780300227888 (ebook) :

New Haven : Yale University Press, 2017.

1 online resource : illustrations (black and white)

Access is available to the Yale community.

Access restricted by licensing agreement.

An economic historian argues that privately funded space exploration is not a new development, but a trend beginning with the astronomical observatories of the nineteenth century Over the last half-century there has been a rapid expansion in commerce off the surface of our planet. Nations and corporations have placed hundreds of satellites that provide billions of dollars' worth of communications, scientific, global positioning, and commercial services, while construction has been completed on humanity's ninth and largest space station. On the planet itself, government agencies, corporations, and individuals plan for the expansion of economic development to the lunar surface, asteroids, and Mars. This work examines the economic history of American space exploration and spaceflight, from early astronomical observatories to the International Space Station.

Yale scholarship online.

Print version :

Books / Online

English

October 03, 2017

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Specialized.