Militarizing Outer Space **explores the dystopian and destructive dimensions of the Space **Age and challenges conventional narratives of a bipolar Cold War rivalry. Concentrating on weapons, warfare and vio?lence, this provocative volume examines real and imagined endeavors of arming the skies and conquering the heavens. The third and final volume in the groundbreaking ?European Astroculture trilogy, ?Militarizing Outer Space zooms in on the interplay between security, technopolitics and knowledge from **the 1920s through the 1980s. Often hailed as the site of heavenly utopias and otherworldly salvation, outer space transformed from a promised sanctuary to a present threat, where the battles of the future were to be waged. Astroculture proved instrumental in fathoming forms and functions of warfare's futures past, both on earth and in space. The allure of dominating outer space, the book shows, was neither limited to the early twenty-first century nor to current American space force rhetorics.

Alexander C. T. Geppert is Associate Professor of History and European Studies at New York University, USA. He holds a joint appointment at NYU Shanghai and the Center for European and Mediterranean Studies in New York City.

Daniel Brandau is a postdoctoral research associate at Freie Universität Berlin, Germany.

Tilmann Siebeneichner is a postdoctoral research associate at Humboldt Universität zu Berlin, Germany.

Militarizing Outer Space explores the dystopian and destructive dimensions of the Space Age and challenges conventional narratives of a bipolar Cold War rivalry. Concentrating on weapons, warfare and viölence, this provocative volume examines real and imagined endeavors of arming the skies and conquering the heavens. The third and final volume in the groundbreaking European Astroculturetrilogy, Militarizing Outer Space zooms in on the interplay between security, technopolitics and knowledge from the 1920s through the 1980s. Often hailed as the site of heavenly utopias and otherworldly salvation, outer space transformed from a promised sanctuary to a present threat, where the battles of the future were to be waged. Astroculture proved instrumental in fathoming forms and functions of warfare's futures past, both on earth and in space. The allure of dominating outer space, the book shows, was neither limited to the early twenty-first century nor to current American space force rhetorics.

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Alexander C. T. Geppert is Associate Professor of History and European Studies at New York University, USA. He holds a joint appointment at NYU Shanghai and the Center for European and Mediterranean Studies in New York City.

Daniel Brandau is a postdoctoral research associate at Freie Universität Berlin, Germany.

Tilmann Siebeneichner is a postdoctoral research associate at Humboldt Universität zu Berlin, Germany.

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Militarizing Outer Space* explores the dystopian and destructive dimensions of the Space *Age and challenges conventional narratives of a bipolar Cold War rivalry. Concentrating on weapons, warfare and violence, this provocative volume examines real and imagined endeavors of arming the skies and conquering the heavens. The third and final volume in the groundbreaking European Astroculturetrilogy, Militarizing Outer *Space zooms in on the interplay between security, technopolitics and knowledge from *the 1920s through the 1980s. Often hailed as the site of heavenly utopias and otherworldly salvation, outer space transformed from a promised sanctuary to a present threat, where the battles of the future were to be waged. Astroculture proved instrumental in fathoming forms and functions of warfare's futures past, both on earth and in space. The allure of dominating outer space, the book shows, was neither limited to the early twenty-first century nor to current American space force rhetorics.

Inhalt

1.Spacewar! The Dark Side of Astroculture- Alexander C. T. Geppert and Tilmann Siebeneichner

Part I:Embattling the Heavens

2.Cold War But No War in Space- Michael J. Neufeld

3.The Nuclear Roots of the Space Race- Christopher Gainor

4.West European Integration and the Militarization of Outer Space, 194570- Michael Sheehan

Part II:Waging Future Wars

5.In Space, Violence Rules: Clashes and Conquests in Science Fiction Cinema- Natalija Majsova

6.C. S. Lewis and the Moral Threat of Space Exploration, 193864- Oliver Dunnett

7.One Nation, Two Astrocultures? Rocketry, Security and Dual Use in Di-vided Germany, 194961- Daniel Brandau

Part III:Armoring Minds and Bodies

8.Participant Evolution: Cold War Space Medicine and the Militarization of the Cyborg Self- Patrick Kilian

9.Starship Troopers: The Shaping of the Space Warrior in Cold War As-troculture, 195080- Philipp Theisohn

10.Satellites and Psychics: The Militarization of Outer and Inner Space, 196095- Anthony Enns

Part IV:Mounting Infrastructures

11.Architectures of Command: The Dual-Use Legacy of Mission Control Centers- Regina Peldszus

12.Space Spies in the Open: Military Space Stations and Heroic Cosmo-nauts in the Post-Apollo Period, 197177- Cathleen Lewis 13.Satellite Navigation and the Military-Civilian Dilemma: The Geopolitics of GPS and its Rivals- Paul E. Ceruzzi

14.What Is, and To What End Do We Study, European Astroculture?- Alexander C. T. Geppert