Table of Contents:
Preface / General Kevin P. Chilton; Foreword / Mark K. Wells; Introduction / Paul G. Gillespie and Grant T. Weller
Space and the Cold War: Prime Motivations for Space: National Security, Space, and the Course of Recent U.S. History / Roger D. Launius • Beyond the Blue Horizon: Lunar Missile Base Concepts in the Early Cold War / William E. Burrows • The Race to the Moon: Imagination and Politics as Shaping Forces in Space Policy / Howard E. McCurdy • Reconnaissance and Prestige: The Creation of a Trinitarian U.S. Space Program / Mark A. Erickson • Starting the Space Race: The Early Development of the Soviet Space Program / P. Myles Smith
Doctrinal Faith: Strategic Dimensions of the War Fighter and Space: Behind the Blue: The Unknown U.S. Air Force Manned Space Program / Dwayne A. Day • Recurring Themes in U.S. Air Force Space History / David N. Spires • Astropolitics and Astropolitik: Strategy and Space Deployment / Everett C. Dolman
U.S. Space from the "Other Side of the Fence": Cultural-Institutional Perspective: Soviet Military Space Power during the Cold War / Asif A. Siddiqi • The Long March Upward: A Review of China’s Space Program / Dean B. Cheng • Coping with Celebrity: Women as Astronauts and Heroes / Amy E. Foster
Technological Change and the Transformation of American Space Power: Technology in Transition: Dyna-Soar and the Military Spaceplane / Roy F. Houchin II • Giving Voice to Global Reach, Global Power: Satellite Communications in U.S. Military Affairs, 1966-2007 / Rick W. Sturdevant • Silo-Sitting in Space / Alex Roland
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"As a three-time visitor to space and leader of the most powerful military space force in the world, I have had the opportunity to experience the wonders and practicalities of space. To be sure, great achievements still await us and to realize them will require both studied reflection on the past and contemplation of the future. Thoughtful students of national defense owe it to themselves to understand the role space has played in national security in the past as a basis for understanding what role it will play in the future. To those students, myself included, I commend this volume."—Preface, General Kevin P. Chilton, Commander, U.S. Strategic Command
"This is a dream team of space scholars with both the breadth and depth you would expect from a U.S. Air Force Academy Military History Symposium. All air and space professionals must read this collection."—Lt. Col. David Christopher Arnold, Ph.D., author of Spying from Space: Constructing America’s Satellite Command and Control Systems
