To touch the face of God : the sacred, the profane and the American space program, 1957-1975 / / Kendrick Oliver.

• Author: ProQuest (Firm); Oliver, Kendrick, 1971-
• TeilnehmendeR: ProQuest (Firm)
• Year of Publication: 2013
• Language: English
• Series: New series in NASA history
• Physical Description: xiii, 229 p., [10] p. of plates :; ill., ports.

Table of Contents

• 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.