Matthew H Hersch
Biographic Data
| ID | 1120990 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Matthew H Hersch |
| GIVEN NAMES | Matthew H |
| FAMILY NAME | Hersch |
| SIGNATURE | HERSCH M H |
| AFFILIATIONS | California University of Pennsylvania |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-5581-160X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 22 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 6 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 22 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2007 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Far Beyond the Moon
Collaboration in Space and the Search for Peace on Earth
Alexander MacDonald. The Long Space Age
Nearly every space historian practicing at a university today has had the experience of being backed into a corner at a cocktail party by an eager colleague from the business school, asking if the recent move away from government-funded spaceflight and toward private ventures has rendered the “big science” paradigm of spaceflight obsolete. In addition to a quasi-historical argument that is embedded in the question, there is also a hint of politic…
Mission Control
It may be a reflection on our times—our transformation into a nation of sedentary computer-users—that the last few years have seen an uptick in scholarly research and popular books on the last unsu...
Groovy Science
Reviewed by: Groovy Science: Knowledge, Innovation, and American Counterculture ed. by David Kaiser, W. Patrick McCray Matthew Hersch (bio) Groovy Science: Knowledge, Innovation, and American Counterculture. Edited by David Kaiser and W. Patrick McCray. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2016. Pp. 416. $25. Ever since the history of science and technology community made the cold war a hot topic of scholarly study a few years back, its attentio…
The Boeing Milestones of Flight Hall, National Air and Space Museum, Smithsonian Institution
The Boeing Milestones of Flight Hall, National Air and Space Museum, Smithsonian Institution Matthew Hersch (bio) The bicentennial crowds that flocked to the grand opening of the Smithsonian Institution’s new National Air and Space Museum on the National Mall in Washington, D.C., needed no label cards to identify the holy relics before them. Like the medieval travelers who clogged the streets of Reims to prostrate themselves in the great cathedra…
Matthew D. Tribbe. No Requiem for the Space Age
Journal Article Matthew D. Tribbe. No Requiem for the Space Age: The Apollo Moon Landings and American Culture. Get access Matthew D. Tribbe. No Requiem for the Space Age: The Apollo Moon Landings and American Culture. New York: Oxford University Press, 2014. Pp. x, 276. $34.95. Matthew H. Hersch Matthew H. Hersch University of Pennsylvania [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The American…
To Touch the Face of God
Son, we are about to break the surly bonds of gravity, and punch the face of God.” So declares nuclear reactor safety inspector and amateur space enthusiast Homer J. Simpson in a 2001 episode of the television cartoon series The Simpsons, right before he and his winsome offspring Bart accidentally launch a rocket into a church, setting it ablaze. The notion that piercing the heavens with flaming, pointy metal objects might have spiritual implicat…
Return of the Lost Spaceman
Digital Apollo
Reviewed by: Digital Apollo: Human and Machine in Space Flight Matthew Hersch (bio) Digital Apollo: Human and Machine in Space Flight. By David A. Mindell. Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 2008. Pp. xiii+359. $29.95. Spaceflight enthusiasts disappointed by the lack of popular interest in interplanetary adventure should take heart in two developments: first, the plethora of new literature on Project Apollo; and second, the fact that while space fans m…
Science on the Air
Philosophy in The Twilight Zone by Noël Carroll and Lester H. Hunt, Editors
Science Fiction and Philosophy
High Fashion
In the years that followed the end of World War II, Americans turned to synthetic fibers to transform their bodies to meet the challenges of a new era: for women, the pinched waists and thrusting bustlines of Christian Dior's “New Look;” for men, the physiological demands of high-speed, high-altitude flight. The story of foundation garments and pressure suits is not simply one of government-developed “spin-off” technologies invigorating the civil…
Checklist
Science in Flux
Reviewed by: Science in Flux: NASA’s Nuclear Program at Plum Brook Station, 1955–2005 Matthew H. Hersch (bio) Science in Flux: NASA’s Nuclear Program at Plum Brook Station, 1955–2005. By Mark D. Bowles . Washington, D.C.: National Aeronautics and Space Administration, 2006 Pp. xxix+335. $25. The image that graces the dust jacket of Science in Flux—a goofy 1959 rendering of an atomic spaceship—suggests not what one cold war nuclear research facili…
Living with Star Trek
Apollo's Stepchildren
Apollo's Stepchildren: New Works on the American Lunar Program Matthew H. Hersch (bio) Gerard J. DeGroot's Dark Side of the Moon Francis French and Colin Burgess's In the Shadow of the Moon It should come as no surprise that the upcoming fortieth anniversary of the first journey by humans to the surface of the Moon has inspired new works on the program that took them there. There were, arguably, explorations more important in the history of human…
Testing the Limits
Reviewed by: Testing the Limits: Aviation Medicine and the Origins of Manned Space Flight Matthew H. Hersch (bio) Testing the Limits: Aviation Medicine and the Origins of Manned Space Flight. By Maura Phillips Mackowski . College Station: Texas A&M University Press, 2005. Pp. xii+289. $49.95. Almost immediately upon launching their first large rockets in the late 1940s, researchers in the United States and the Soviet Union stuffed the nose cones …
Into That Silent Sea
Finding the Force of the Star Wars Franchise
Popular Eugenics
Return of the Lost Spaceman
High Fashion
In the years that followed the end of World War II, Americans turned to synthetic fibers to transform their bodies to meet the challenges of a new era: for women, the pinched waists and thrusting bustlines of Christian Dior's “New Look;” for men, the physiological demands of high-speed, high-altitude flight. The story of foundation garments and pressure suits is not simply one of government-developed “spin-off” technologies invigorating the civil…
Checklist
Testing the Limits
Reviewed by: Testing the Limits: Aviation Medicine and the Origins of Manned Space Flight Matthew H. Hersch (bio) Testing the Limits: Aviation Medicine and the Origins of Manned Space Flight. By Maura Phillips Mackowski . College Station: Texas A&M University Press, 2005. Pp. xii+289. $49.95. Almost immediately upon launching their first large rockets in the late 1940s, researchers in the United States and the Soviet Union stuffed the nose cones …
Into That Silent Sea
Finding the Force of the Star Wars Franchise
Popular Eugenics
Science in Flux
Reviewed by: Science in Flux: NASA’s Nuclear Program at Plum Brook Station, 1955–2005 Matthew H. Hersch (bio) Science in Flux: NASA’s Nuclear Program at Plum Brook Station, 1955–2005. By Mark D. Bowles . Washington, D.C.: National Aeronautics and Space Administration, 2006 Pp. xxix+335. $25. The image that graces the dust jacket of Science in Flux—a goofy 1959 rendering of an atomic spaceship—suggests not what one cold war nuclear research facili…
Living with Star Trek
Apollo's Stepchildren
Apollo's Stepchildren: New Works on the American Lunar Program Matthew H. Hersch (bio) Gerard J. DeGroot's Dark Side of the Moon Francis French and Colin Burgess's In the Shadow of the Moon It should come as no surprise that the upcoming fortieth anniversary of the first journey by humans to the surface of the Moon has inspired new works on the program that took them there. There were, arguably, explorations more important in the history of human…
Digital Apollo
Reviewed by: Digital Apollo: Human and Machine in Space Flight Matthew Hersch (bio) Digital Apollo: Human and Machine in Space Flight. By David A. Mindell. Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 2008. Pp. xiii+359. $29.95. Spaceflight enthusiasts disappointed by the lack of popular interest in interplanetary adventure should take heart in two developments: first, the plethora of new literature on Project Apollo; and second, the fact that while space fans m…
Science on the Air
Philosophy in The Twilight Zone by Noël Carroll and Lester H. Hunt, Editors
Science Fiction and Philosophy
High Fashion
In the years that followed the end of World War II, Americans turned to synthetic fibers to transform their bodies to meet the challenges of a new era: for women, the pinched waists and thrusting bustlines of Christian Dior's “New Look;” for men, the physiological demands of high-speed, high-altitude flight. The story of foundation garments and pressure suits is not simply one of government-developed “spin-off” technologies invigorating the civil…
Checklist
Return of the Lost Spaceman
To Touch the Face of God
Son, we are about to break the surly bonds of gravity, and punch the face of God.” So declares nuclear reactor safety inspector and amateur space enthusiast Homer J. Simpson in a 2001 episode of the television cartoon series The Simpsons, right before he and his winsome offspring Bart accidentally launch a rocket into a church, setting it ablaze. The notion that piercing the heavens with flaming, pointy metal objects might have spiritual implicat…
Matthew D. Tribbe. No Requiem for the Space Age
Journal Article Matthew D. Tribbe. No Requiem for the Space Age: The Apollo Moon Landings and American Culture. Get access Matthew D. Tribbe. No Requiem for the Space Age: The Apollo Moon Landings and American Culture. New York: Oxford University Press, 2014. Pp. x, 276. $34.95. Matthew H. Hersch Matthew H. Hersch University of Pennsylvania [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The American…
The Boeing Milestones of Flight Hall, National Air and Space Museum, Smithsonian Institution
The Boeing Milestones of Flight Hall, National Air and Space Museum, Smithsonian Institution Matthew Hersch (bio) The bicentennial crowds that flocked to the grand opening of the Smithsonian Institution’s new National Air and Space Museum on the National Mall in Washington, D.C., needed no label cards to identify the holy relics before them. Like the medieval travelers who clogged the streets of Reims to prostrate themselves in the great cathedra…
Mission Control
It may be a reflection on our times—our transformation into a nation of sedentary computer-users—that the last few years have seen an uptick in scholarly research and popular books on the last unsu...
Groovy Science
Reviewed by: Groovy Science: Knowledge, Innovation, and American Counterculture ed. by David Kaiser, W. Patrick McCray Matthew Hersch (bio) Groovy Science: Knowledge, Innovation, and American Counterculture. Edited by David Kaiser and W. Patrick McCray. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2016. Pp. 416. $25. Ever since the history of science and technology community made the cold war a hot topic of scholarly study a few years back, its attentio…
Alexander MacDonald. The Long Space Age
Nearly every space historian practicing at a university today has had the experience of being backed into a corner at a cocktail party by an eager colleague from the business school, asking if the recent move away from government-funded spaceflight and toward private ventures has rendered the “big science” paradigm of spaceflight obsolete. In addition to a quasi-historical argument that is embedded in the question, there is also a hint of politic…
Collaboration in Space and the Search for Peace on Earth
Far Beyond the Moon
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