TIMELINE: Untold Stories of Space Exploration: (Also Available as eBook) (Volume 3)

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In Volume 3 of his Moonwalkers(tm) series, author John Getter once again uses his experience as NASA’s reporter-of-choice for pool coverage, private pilot and personal friend to many of the astronauts, to reveal the little-known stories behind the history of space exploration. Join John as he takes the reader on a day-by-day journey through the human adventure of space exploration from the birth of NASA in 1958 through the last American's walk on the moon in 1972. Share insider stories like the good luck urination on launch pads through the devastating losses of human life. Learn more about the triumphs, disasters and cover-ups that were such an integral part of the “Cold War” race to the Moon. This e-book includes 37 photographs from John's personal collection as well as NASA and Soviet archives. A great follow-up to John's best-selling Moonwalkers(tm) Volume 1 "To the Moon: Untold Stories of the Space Race" and Moonwalkers(tm) Volume 2 "Space Truck: Untold Stories of the Space Shuttle"

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The Politics of Space Security: Strategic Restraint and the Pursuit of National Interests (Stanford Security Studies)

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At a time when no other country enjoys the advantages that the United States currently reaps from space, some U.S. officials argue that U.S. space defenses will be needed to protect access to critical military and civilian assets in orbit. Others argue that space should be a valuable "sanctuary" from deployed weapons and military conflict.

To inform this debate—and develop meaningful guidelines for the future—Clay Moltz has undertaken the only comprehensive study of the first 50 years of space security, highlighting the main trends in military space developments, their underlying causes, and the factors that are likely to influence their future course.

What emerges is a picture of surprising military restraint shown by the United States and the Soviet Union in space, and the inescapable conclusion that the only way forward is through a multilateral commitment to interdependent, environmentally focused space security.

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The Politics of Space Security: Strategic Restraint and the Pursuit of National Interests, Second Edition

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The past five decades have witnessed often fierce international rivalry in space, but also surprising military restraint. Now, with an increasing number of countries capable of harming U.S. space assets, experts and officials have renewed a long-standing debate over the best route to space security. Some argue that space defenses will be needed to protect critical military and civilian satellites. Others argue that space should be a "sanctuary" from deployed weapons and military conflict, particularly given the worsening threat posed by orbital space debris. Moltz puts this debate into historical context by explaining the main trends in military space developments since Sputnik, their underlying causes, and the factors that are likely to influence their future course. This new edition provides analysis of the Obama administration's space policy and the rise of new actors, including China, India, and Iran.

His conclusion offers a unique perspective on the mutual risks militaries face in space and the need for all countries to commit to interdependent, environmentally focused space security.

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Triumph of Order: Democracy and Public Space in New York and London (Columbia History of Urban Life)

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In an effort to create a secure urban environment in which residents can work, live, and prosper with minimal disruption, New York and London established a network of laws, policing, and municipal government in the nineteenth century aimed at building the confidence of the citizenry and creating stability for economic growth. At the same time, these two world cities attempted to maintain an expansive level of free speech and assembly, concepts deeply ingrained in both national cultures. As democracy expanded in tandem with the size of the cities themselves, the two goals clashed, resulting in tensions over their compatibility.

The results of this clash continue to resonate in our society today. Treating nineteenth-century London and New York as case studies, Lisa Keller examines the critical development of sanctioned free speech, controlled public assembly, new urban regulations, and the quelling of riots, all in the name of a proper regard for order. Drawing on rich archival sources that include the unpublished correspondence of government officials and ordinary citizens, Keller paints an intimate portrait of daily life in these two cities and the intricacies of their emerging bureaucracies. She finds that New York eventually settled on a policy of preempting disruption before it occurred, while London chose a path of greater tolerance toward street activities.

Dividing her history into five categories—cities, police and militia, the public, free speech and assembly, and the law—Keller concludes with an assessment of freedom in these cities today and asks whether the scales have been tipped too strongly on the side of order and control. Public officials increasingly use permits, fees, and bureaucratic hassles to frustrate the ability of reformers and protesters to make their voices heard, and by doing so, she argues, they strike at the very foundations of democracy.

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