Conway High-Speed Dreams

NASA and the Technopolitics of Supersonic Transportation, 1945–1999
Erscheinungsjahr 2008
ISBN: 978-1-4214-1043-2
Verlag: Johns Hopkins University Press
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 0 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm

Reihe: New Series in NASA History

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, and subsequent attempts to revitalize supersonic technology at the end of the century.

High-Speed Dreams is a sophisticated study of politics, economics, nationalism, and the global pursuit of progress. Historians, along with participants in current aerospace research programs, will gain valuable perspective on the interaction of politics and technology.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Conway, Erik M.

Fachgebiete

• Technische Wissenschaften Technik Allgemein Technikgeschichte
• Naturwissenschaften Astronomie Astronomie: Allgemeines
• Geowissenschaften Geologie Geologie
• Technische Wissenschaften Sonstige Technologien | Angewandte Technik Weltraumforschung

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface
Acknowledgments
List of Abbreviations Used in the Text
Introduction
1. Constructing the Supersonic Age
2. Technological Rivalry and the Cold War
3. Engineering the National Champion
4. Of Noise, Jumbos, and SSTs
5. Of Ozone, the Concorde, and SSTs
6. The Airbus, the Orient Express, and the Renaissance of Speed
7. Toward a Green SST
8. Sic Transit HSCT
Conclusion
Notes
Essay on Sources
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Conway, Erik M.
Erik M. Conway serves as historian, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, California.