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020 _z9781421407883 (hardback : acid-free paper)
020 _z1421407884 (hardback : acid-free paper)
020 _z9781421408347 (e-book)
035 _a(CaPaEBR)ebr10643249
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050 1 4 _aTL789.8.U5
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082 0 4 _a629.40973/09046
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100 1 _aOliver, Kendrick,
_d1971-
245 1 0 _aTo touch the face of God
_h[electronic resource] :
_bthe sacred, the profane and the American space program, 1957-1975 /
_cKendrick Oliver.
260 _aBaltimore :
_bJohns Hopkins University Press,
_c2013.
300 _axiii, 229 p., [10] p. of plates :
_bill., ports.
440 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.
533 _aElectronic reproduction.
_bPalo Alto, Calif. :
_cebrary,
_d2013.
_nAvailable via World Wide Web.
_nAccess may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries.
610 1 0 _aUnited States.
_bNational Aeronautics and Space Administration
_xHistory
_y20th century.
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.
651 0 _aUnited States
_xReligion
_y20th century.
651 0 _aUnited States
_xPolitics and government
_y1945-1989.
655 7 _aElectronic books.
_2local
710 2 _aebrary, Inc.
856 4 0 _uhttp://site.ebrary.com/lib/daystar/Doc?id=10643249
_zAn electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view
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