The Space Flight Revolution: A Sociological Study

by William Sims Bainbridge

Spaceflight is a fascinating example of revolutionary technological change. It has transformed our world in radical ways and was itself the result of special social conditions and sequences of events. This book not only tells the surprising story of the spaceflight revolution, but also gives the first sociological analysis of why it started and how it succeeded.

294 pages, Hardcover

First published January 12, 1977