It certainly fills a gap.” (Jon Agar, The British Journal for the History of Science, Vol. and occasionally revelatory set of essays that delve into how (mostly Western) Europeans portrayed outer space, spaceflight and space exploration. Without question, astrocultural investigation is one of the more interesting and original efforts to restructure spaceflight history in the early twenty-first century.” (Roger D. It may well jump-start a new approach to the history of spaceflight, something beyond the well-worn space-policy and geopolitical studies that are so much a part of the field. “Imagining Outer Space offers rich potential in explaining the infatuation of spaceflight by Europeans of many different nationalities and cultures. It successfully establishes ‘astroculture’ as an energetic and growing area of scholarly production and debate.” (De Witt Douglas Kilgore, Science Fiction Studies, Vol. It also sheds new light on the often underplayed European contributions to imagining outer space as a richly inhabited human realm. “Imagining Outer Space is a brilliantly organized compendium of current scholarship at the intersection between space history and the popular cultures of science/fiction.
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