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This book is important because it pushes beyond . . . well-known intersections between space exploration and civil rights and for the first time gathers together essays that all analyze this significant historical connection from a wide variety of angles. --Isis Offers fresh, informative new perspectives on NASA's experience with respect to People of Color and women. --Technology and Culture A welcome addition to the complex story of the country's Civil Rights Movement, and to the history of NASA. --Choice

This book is important because it pushes beyond . . . well-known intersections between space exploration and civil rights and for the first time gathers together essays that all analyze this significant historical connection from a wide variety of angles. -Isis Offers fresh, informative new perspectives on NASA's experience with respect to People of Color and women. -Technology and Culture A welcome addition to the complex story of the country's Civil Rights Movement, and to the history of NASA. -Choice Shines new light on a variety of civil rights topics within aerospace history. -Steven Moss, coauthor of We Could Not Fail: The First African Americans in the Space Program The essays in this useful volume present a nice blend of social, cultural, and political history that provides new and exciting insights into the intersection of race and space. -Kari Frederickson, author of Cold War Dixie: Militarization and Modernization in the American South

This book is important because it pushes beyond . . . well-known intersections between space exploration and civil rights and for the first time gathers together essays that all analyze this significant historical connection from a wide variety of angles. --Isis Offers fresh, informative new perspectives on NASA's experience with respect to People of Color and women. --Technology and Culture A welcome addition to the complex story of the country's Civil Rights Movement, and to the history of NASA. --Choice Shines new light on a variety of civil rights topics within aerospace history. --Steven Moss, coauthor of We Could Not Fail: The First African Americans in the Space Program The essays in this useful volume present a nice blend of social, cultural, and political history that provides new and exciting insights into the intersection of race and space. --Kari Frederickson, author of Cold War Dixie: Militarization and Modernization in the American South

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Brian C. Odom is a historian at NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama. Stephen P. Waring, chair of the Department of History at the University of Alabama in Huntsville, is coauthor of Power to Explore: A History of Marshall Space Flight Center, 1960–1990.

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