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Notes on a New Book: “Landing in Las Vegas: Commercial Aviation and the Making of a Tourist City”
Landing in Las Vegas: Commercial Aviation and the Making of a Tourist City. By Daniel K. Bubb. Las Vegas: University of Nevada Press, 2012. Shepperson Series in Nevada. How did Las Vegas become the gambling capital of the world, outstripping … Continue reading
The Declining Significance of the Frontier in Space History?
It began to be perceptible in the late 1960s, and was certainly recognized in the 1970s, that the intermix of frontier imagery, popular culture expectations, and Cold War concerns was beginning to break-down. This was true across broad swaths of … Continue reading
Posted in Apollo, Cold War Competition, History, Politics, Space, Space Shuttle
Tagged 1960s, American exceptionalism, American West, Apollo, cold war, frontier, Gemini V, History, international relations, International Space Station, James C. Fletcher, John Glenn, manifest destiny, Moon race, NASA, Patricia Nelson Limerick, presidential power, public perceptions, public policy, space shuttle, U.S. Civil Space
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