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High-Speed Dreams: NASA and the Technopolitics of Supersonic Transportation, 1945–1999
Erik M. Conway
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Description for High-Speed Dreams: NASA and the Technopolitics of Supersonic Transportation, 1945–1999
Paperback. Historians, along with participants in current aerospace research programs, will gain valuable perspective on the interaction of politics and technology. Series: New Series in NASA History. Num Pages: 392 pages, 22, 12 black & white halftones, 10 black & white line drawings. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JJP; KNGV. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 228 x 154 x 24. Weight in Grams: 610.
In High-Speed Dreams, Erik M. Conway constructs an insightful history that focuses primarily on the political and commercial factors responsible for the rise and fall of American supersonic transport research programs. Conway charts commercial supersonic research efforts through the changing relationships between international and domestic politicians, military/NASA contractors, private investors, and environmentalists. He documents post-World War II efforts at the National Advisory Committee on Aeronautics and the Defense Department to generate supersonic flight technologies, the attempts to commercialize these technologies by Britain and the United States during the 1950s and 1960s, environmental campaigns against SST technology in the 1970s, ... Read more
In High-Speed Dreams, Erik M. Conway constructs an insightful history that focuses primarily on the political and commercial factors responsible for the rise and fall of American supersonic transport research programs. Conway charts commercial supersonic research efforts through the changing relationships between international and domestic politicians, military/NASA contractors, private investors, and environmentalists. He documents post-World War II efforts at the National Advisory Committee on Aeronautics and the Defense Department to generate supersonic flight technologies, the attempts to commercialize these technologies by Britain and the United States during the 1950s and 1960s, environmental campaigns against SST technology in the 1970s, ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
Johns Hopkins University Press United States
Number of pages
392
Condition
New
Series
New Series in NASA History
Number of Pages
392
Place of Publication
Baltimore, MD, United States
ISBN
9780801890819
SKU
V9780801890819
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About Erik M. Conway
Erik M. Conway serves as historian, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, California.
Reviews for High-Speed Dreams: NASA and the Technopolitics of Supersonic Transportation, 1945–1999
Of interest to historians and social scientists concerned with the politics and economics of public policy... An important book on a fascinating topic. Choice 2005 A concise and thoroughly fascinating history of the train wreck that was the U.S. supersonic civil transport programs. Air and Space Magazine 2006 A readable narrative on the interplay between politics, technology, and economics. Airways ... Read more