Ground Control A Design History Of Technical Lands And Nasas Space Complex Jeffrey S Nesbit by Jeffrey S. Nesbit 9781003480792, 9781032770031, 9781032770055, 1032770031, 1003480799, 1032770058 instant download after payment.

Ground Control: A Design History of Technical Lands and NASA’s Space Complex explores the infrastructural history of the US rocket launch complex. Working primarily between 1950, the year of the first rocket launch at Cape Canaveral, to 1969, the Apollo Moon landing, the book highlights the evolution of its overlooked architecture and infrastructural landscape in parallel to US aerospace history. The cases outlined in this book survey the varying architectural histories and aesthetic motivations that helped to produce America’s public image of early space exploration. The built environment of the US space complex shows how its expanded infrastructural landscape tended to align with national Cold War politics and themes found in the age of modernity. Examples across often inaccessible sites of remote landscape help to explain the contingent histories and deep association of an American aesthetic, land use, and ultimately a form of nation-building practices. Ground Control offers a new way of understanding how technological uses of place-based science were designed and constructed in support of both industrial and military activities in postwar America. This book will be of interest to researchers, scholars, students, and anyone with a general interest in the history of American infrastructure, land use, and space exploration.