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The summer of 1969 saw astronauts land on the moon for the first time and hippie hordes descend on Woodstock for a legendary music festival. For Neil M. Maher, the conjunction of these two era-defining events is not entirely coincidental. Apollo in the Age of Aquarius shows how …

Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Introduction: Launching the Sixties -- 1. Spaceship Earth: Civil Rights and NASA's War on Poverty -- 2. Shooting (from) the Moon: NASA, Nature, and the New Left during the Vietnam War Era -- 3. Thinking Globally, Acti…

Introduction : Launching the Sixties -- Spaceship Earth : civil rights and NASA's war on poverty -- Shooting (from) the moon : NASA, nature, and the New Left during the Vietnam War era -- Thinking globally, acting locally : Cape Canaveral and whole earth environmentalism -- Heav…

The summer of 1969 saw astronauts land on the moon for the first time and hippie hordes descend on Woodstock for a legendary music festival. For Neil M. Maher, the conjunction of these two era-defining events is not entirely coincidental. Apollo in the Age of Aquarius shows how …

"The summer of 1969 saw astronauts land on the moon for the first time and hippie hordes descend on Woodstock for a legendary music festival. For Neil M. Maher, the conjunction of these two era-defining events is not entirely coincidental. Apollo in the Age of Aquarius shows how…

"In summer 1969, astronauts landed on the moon and hippie hordes descended on Woodstock--two era-defining events that are not entirely coincidental. Neil M. Maher shows how NASA's celestial aspirations were tethered to terrestrial concerns of the time: the civil rights struggle,…