Florida's Space Coast by William B Faherty
The story of America's half century in space exploration, from the successful launch of the first two-stage rocket in 1950 to the space shuttle missions of 2000. It shows how the space programme transformed the east central Florida coast from a traditional citrus production and tourist area into one of the most influential high-tech centres of the nation. Cape Canaveral was chosen as a missile launch site because of its many geographical advantages. However, in the early years of the space programme, the area was far from an ideal place for NASA employees to raise their families. NASA brought in thousands of space-related workers who, besides sending machines and men into space, had to meet the challenge of moving their families from urban environms to a rural southern county. This book recounts the parallel stories of the establishment of America's space programme and its impact on the development of Brevard County.-
Voices of the Apalachicola
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Land of Sunshine, State of Dreams
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DEATH in the EVERGLADES
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Jacksonville
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Losing It All to Sprawl
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The Everglades
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Manatee Insanity
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The New Deal in South Florida
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Paving Paradise
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Balancing Evils Judiciously: the Proslavery Writings of Zephaniah Kingsley
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Hitler's Soldiers in the Sunshine State
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A Most Disorderly Court
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Frank Lloyd Wright'S Florida Southern College
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Pilgrim in the Land of Alligators
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The Tropic of Cracker
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Paradise Lost?
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Embry-Riddle at War
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The Columbia Restaurant
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Seasons of Real Florida
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Claude Pepper and Ed Ball
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In the Eye of Hurricane Andrew
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MAKING WAVES: FEMALE ACTIVISTS in TWENTIETH-CENTURY FLORIDA
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Come to My Sunland
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Government in the Sunshine State
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Sunshine Paradise
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The Enduring Seminoles
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Castles in the Sand
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The Wide Brim
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Al Burt's Florida
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Black Miami in the Twentieth Century
An important, interesting study of the relations between the Kennedy Space Center and the communities of Brevard County, Florida- Roger D. Launius, chief historian, NASA, Washington, D.C. ""This outstanding book provides readers of Florida history our first insight into the impact that high technology has had on the state. Faherty's writing is direct, simple, even folksy at times. I devoured it!"" - Michael Gannon, author of Pearl Harbor Betrayed and A Short History of Florida
William Barnaby Faherty is professor emeritus of history at St. Louis University and director of the Museum of the Western Jesuit Missions in Hazelwood, Missouri. He is the author of 25 books, including Parks College: Legacy of an Aviation Pioneer and co-author of Gateway to the Moon and Moon Launch! with Charles D. Benson.
| SKU | Unavailable |
| ISBN 13 | 9780813025636 |
| ISBN 10 | 081302563X |
| Title | Florida's Space Coast |
| Author | William B Faherty |
| Series | The Florida History And Culture Series |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | University Press of Florida |
| Year published | 2002-12-31 |
| Number of pages | 208 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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