The Final Frontier keyword-valerie-solanas Etienne Balibar

Etienne Balibar

Mary Elise Sarotte

After a generation of retreat and decline

political theory and urbanism

It vindicates history’s ability to come to reasoned conclusions on the basis of a careful examination of the evidence

The Final Frontier keyword-valerie-solanas Etienne BalibarStunned by the news of Sputnik in 1957, the American public were to be treated over the next dozen years to the spectacle of an all out national crusade: the race to beat the Russians to the moon. What few understood at the time and what has largely been obscured in popular representations of this episode in movies and bestsellers was the key economic and technical role played by manned space exploration in post war US capitalist expansion. From