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Apollo in the Age of Aquarius

Neil M. Maher

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ISBN 9780674237391

Publication Date: 03/11/2019

368 pages

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Neil M. Maher is Professor of History at the New Jersey Institute of Technology and Rutgers University, Newark.

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In the New York Times, read Neil Maher on 1960s and ’70s populist criticism of the space program—arguments that the money would be better spent elsewhere and which led, over the long term, to eroded government support and increasingly privatized space exploration
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2017 Eugene M. Emme Astronautical Literature Award, American Astronautical Society

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