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Advocates of space exploration have long advanced a fantastic vision of the future: cavernous space stations, extensive lunar bases, sophisticated spacecraft and colonies on Mars. In books, movies, television shows, magazine articles and theme parks, Americans have been exposed to the belief that a complete conquest of space would soon be achieved. Examining popular images that have helped motivate the most ambitious civil space programme in the world, Howard E. McCurdy argues that the spacefaring dream tapped into several of America's most deeply rooted cultural ideals: the limitless frontier, the heroic explorer and progress through technology. He also shows how space advocates, playing on the public's Cold War fears, convinced politicians that control of space meant control of the Earth. Forty years after the launch of the first orbiting satellites, US achievements in space have fallen far short of the hopeful visions encouraged by Chesley Bonestell's paintings in "Collier's" magazine and television series such as "Star Trek". In "Space and the American Imagination", McCurdy contends that the gap between expectations and reality has led to waning public support for the space programme and argues that such gaps typically arise when public policy is obliged to entertain as well as to inform.
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