Table of Contents
Introduction Michael J. Neufeld 1
Chapter 1 Setting the Scene for Human Spaceflights: Men into Space and The Man and the Challenge Margaret A. Weitekamp 9
Chapter 2 "Capsules Are Swallowed": The Mythology of the Pilot in American Spaceflight Matthew H. Hersch 35
Chapter 3 Noslalgia for the Right Stuff: Astronauts and Public Anxiety about a Changing Nation James Spjller 81
Chapter 4 The Fiftieth Jubilee: Yuri Gagarin in the Soviet and Post-Soviet Imagination Andrew Jenks 81
Chapter 5 Astronauts and Cosmonauts into Frenchmen: Understanding Space Travel through the Popular Weekly Paris Match Guiliaume de Syon 107
Chapter 6 They May Remake Our Image of Mankind: Representations of Cosmonauts and Astronauts in Soviet and American Space Propaganda Magazines, 1961-1981 Trevor S. Rockwell 125
Chapter 7 Bringing Spaceflight Down to Earth: Astronauts and The IMAX Experience® Valerie Neal 149
Chapter 8 You've Come a Long Way, Maybe: The First Six Women .Astronauts and the Media Jennifer Ross-Nazzal 175
Chapter 9 Warriors and Worriers: Risk, Masculinity, and the Anxiety of Individuality in the Literature of American Spaceflight Margaret Lazarus Dean 203
Acknowledgments 227
Selected Bibliography 229
Contributors 239
Index 243