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02287aam a2200433 a 4500 001 9FF8D95ACCDC11E29536ECE2DAD10320 003 SILO 005 20130604010126 008 120522s2013 mdua b 001 0 eng 010 $a 2012017651 020 $a 1421408341 (ebk.) 020 $a 9781421408347 (ebk.) 020 $a 1421407884 (hbk. : acid-free paper) 020 $a 9781421407883 (hbk. : acid-free paper) 035 $a (OCoLC)794227950 040 $a DLC $b eng $c DLC $d IG# $d YDXCP $d BTCTA $d SILO 043 $a n-us--- 050 00 $a TL789.8.U5 $b O39 2013 082 00 $a 629.40973/09046 $2 23 100 1 $a Oliver, Kendrick, $d 1971- 245 10 $a To touch the face of God : $b the sacred, the profane, and the American space program, 1957-1975 / $c Kendrick Oliver. 260 $a Baltimore : $b Johns Hopkins University Press, $c 2013. 300 $a xiii, 229 p. : $b ill. ; $c 24 cm. 490 1 $a New series in NASA history 504 $a Includes bibliographical references and index. 505 0 $a Introduction: "The blasphemy of going up" -- "A power greater than any of us" : religion and secularity in the formation of the American space program -- "Signals of transcendence" : the rise and fall of space-age theology -- "Into the other world" : anticipations of spaceflight as religious experience -- "Perhaps a meaning to us" : the Apollo missions as religious experience -- "Evil triumphs when good men do nothing" : religious Americans and NASA in the autumn of the space age -- Epilogue. 650 0 $a Astronautics $z United States $x History $y 20th century. 650 0 $a Religion and science $z United States $x History $y 20th century. 650 0 $a Astronautics $x History $z United States $x History $y 20th century. 650 0 $a Christianity and politics $z United States $x History $y 20th century. 610 10 $a United States. $b National Aeronautics and Space Administration $x History $y 20th century. 651 0 $a United States $x Religion $y 20th century. 651 0 $a United States $x Politics and government $y 1945-1989. 830 0 $a New series in NASA history. 941 $a 3 952 $l USUX851 $d 20230302015239.0 952 $l OVUX522 $d 20191210022908.0 952 $l HWAX074 $d 20140415021808.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=9FF8D95ACCDC11E29536ECE2DAD10320Initiate Another SILO Locator Search