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Building Nonalignment: Technological Interchange and India’s Third Five-Year Plan (1961-1966) 

Logan, William (2016-07-27)
The role of ideology in the modernization of India has been closely studied. Less well understood is the role that technological knowledge and artifacts played. This dissertation studies the role of technology in the Indian ...

Echoes That Never Were: American Mobile Intercontinental Ballistic Missiles, 1956 - 1983 

Pomeroy, Steven (2006-08-15)
Using a contextual, inside-outsider perspective, this dissertation addresses a gap in the history of American military space technology. Shortly after the inception of the intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) program, ...

NASA's Hidden Power: NACA/NASA Public Relations and the Cold War, 1945-1967 

Starr, Kristen (2008-12-15)
During the 1960s, NASA’s human spaceflight program commanded national and international attention. The program created American images infused with heroic values. What were these images? How and why did the process of image ...

Roots: From Crop Duster to Airline; The Origins of Delta Air Lines to World War II 

Hoogerwerf, James (2010-12-06)
Delta Air Lines (Delta) is one of the great surviving legacy airlines of the first century of flight. In the annals of American aviation history its origins are unique. Delta’s beginning can be traced to the arrival of ...

Space Policy: A Comparative Study of the George W. Bush and Barack Obama Administrations 

Brown, Trevor (2015-12-10)
This dissertation is a comparative study between the George W. Bush and Barack Obama administrations’ space policies. The work employs qualitative techniques, such as interviews and archival analysis, to elucidate and ...

A Third Option: Imperial Air Defense and the Pacific Dominions, 1918-1939 

Spencer, Alex (2008-08-15)
The air defense of Australia and New Zealand during the interwar period demonstrates the difficulty of applying changing military technology to the defense of the global empire and provides insight into the nature of the ...

'This is Ground Control': The Invention of Mission Control Centers in the United States and Europe 

Johnson, Michael (2012-05-14)
This dissertation examines the invention of mission control centers by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration and the European Space Agency, particularly during the Cold War. The control rooms of Johnson Space ...