Limiting Outer Space

Introduction.- 1 Alexander C.T. Geppert; The Post-Apollo Paradox: Envisioning Limits During the Planetized 1970s.- Part I: Navigating the 1970s.- 2           Martin Collins; The 1970s: Spaceflight and Historically Interpreting the In-between Decade.- 3         Roger D. Launius; Responding to Apollo: America’s Divergent Reactions to the Moon Landings.- 4    Doug Millard; A Grounding in Space: Were the 1970s a Period of Transition in Britain’s Exploration of Outer Space?.- Part II: Reconfiguring Outer Space.- 5 Robert Poole; The Myth of Progress: 2001: A Space Odyssey.- 6         Florian Kläger; The Earthward Gaze and Self-reflexivity in Anglophone Novels of the 1970s.- 7 Thore Bjørnvig; Building Outer Space: LEGO and the Conquest of the Beyond in the 1970s.- 8 Luca Follis;The Province and Heritage of Humankind: Space Law’s Imaginary of Outer Space, 1967–1979.- Part III: Grounding Utopias.- 9 Andrew Jenks; Transnational Utopias, Space Exploration and the Association of Space Explorers, 1972–1985.- 10 Regina Peldszus; Architectural Experiments in Space: Orbital Stations, Simulators and Speculative Design, 1968–1982.- 11 Tilmann Siebeneichner; Spacelab: Peace, Progress and European Politics in Outer Space, 1973–1985.- 12 Peter J. Westwick; From the Club of Rome to Star Wars: The Era of Limits, Space Colonization and the Origins of SDI.- Epilogue.- 13 David A. Kirby; Final Frontiers? Envisioning Utopia in the Era of Limits.