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Hitting the Books: How America’s Space Race sought to renew our ‘New South’

Post author By Randall
Post date December 28, 2019
Categories In civil rights, column, hitting the books, hittingthebooks, Nasa, new south, Space, sputnik, Tech, tomorrow, university of florida press, ussr

[ad_1] NASA and the Long Civil Rights MovementEdited by Brian C. Odom and Stephen P. Waring At its inception, NASA, and space exploration in general, was billed as an endeavor “for the benefit of all mankind.” However, the reality of the situation was far more messy. Eisenhower complained of the cost while leaders of the […]