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作 者:Gerard J. De Groot

出 版 社:Jonathan Cape

出版时间:2007-02

I S B N:9780224075930

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(“The book is well written and quite engaging with its cast of colorful characters.”)-(Choice,/p>),()(“Dark Side of the Moon is an elegant contribution to the history of the space age.”)-(The Sunday Times),()(“DeGroot presents a chronicle of exploration, concentrating on the utter uselessness of NASA’s lunar missions, boondoggles every bit as myopic and costly as the Cold War that spawned them.”)-(The Atlantic Monthly),()(“DeGroot writes compellingly about the convergence of political, military, and industrial forces that produced the ‘magnificent madness’ of the space agency NASA in the 1960s. . . . A fine writer with a real flair for storytelling has fun with NASA's extravagance and its tendency to look for complex solutions where simple ones would do.”)-(The Financial Times),()(“DeGroot weaves a compelling tale.”)-(Chicago Sun-Times),()--This text refers to an alternate Hardcoveredition.

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For a very brief moment during the 1960s, America was moonstruck. Every boy dreamed of being an astronaut; every girl dreamed of marrying one. Americans drank Tang, bought "space pens" that wrote upside down, wore clothes made of space age Mylar, and took imaginary rockets to the Moon from themes parks scattered around the country. But despite the best efforts of a generation of scientists, the almost foolhardy heroics of the astronauts, and 35 billion dollars, the moon turned out to be a place of "magnificent desolation," to use Buzz Aldrin s words - a sterile rock of no purpose to anyone. In "Dark Side of the Moon", Gerard DeGroot reveals how NASA cashed in on the Americans thirst for heroes in an age of discontent and became obsessed with putting men in space. The moon mission was sold as a race which America could not afford to lose. Landing on the moon, it was argued, would be good for the economy, for politics, and for the soul. It could even win the Cold War. The great tragedy is that so much effort and expense was devoted to a small step that did virtually nothing for mankind. Drawing on meticulous archival research, DeGroot cuts through the myths constructed by the Eisenhower, Kennedy, and Johnson administrations and sustained by NASA ever since. He finds a gang of cynics, demagogues, scheming politicians, and corporations who amassed enormous power - and profits - by exploiting the fear of what the Russians might do in space. Exposing the truth behind one of the most revered fictions of American history, "Dark Side of the Moon" explains why the American space program has been caught in a state of purposeless wandering ever since Neil Armstrong descended from Apollo 11 and stepped onto the moon. The effort devoted to the space program was indeed magnificent and its cultural impact was profound, but the purpose of the program was as desolate and dry as lunar dust.

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