Project Man in Space
Applied Anthropology's Cold War Space Oddity
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2227724 |
|---|---|
| Authors | D H Price (0000-0002-2255-2506, Saint Martin's University, corresponding author), David Price (0000-0002-8023-6499) |
| Year | 2020 |
| Volume | 76 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 326-346 |
| Publication date | 2020-09-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of Anthropological Research (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0091-7710 • E-ISSN: 2153-3806 |
| Publisher | University of Chicago Press (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1086/709802 |
| OpenAlex | W3049048842 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 10 |
During the 1950s, partially in response to the Soviet Union’s launching of Sputnik, social psychologist Donald Michael launched Project Man in Space, a group of American social scientists organized to study and shape American attitudes toward space exploration. Margaret Mead and other anthropologists’ involvement in the Man in Space program is detailed here, and although the program is shown to have done valuable work measuring public understanding of space, the fact that the program focused on civilian space travel fantasies while downplaying the militarization of space indicates important political dimensions of this applied project
Cold war · Militarization · Political science · Politics · Sociology · Soviet union · Space (punctuation) · Space exploration · Space program · Computer Science · Engineering · History of Science and Medicine · Law · Space exploration and regulation · Space Science and Extraterrestrial Life
| Unique citing works | 1 |
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| Citations per year | 1 |
| Citation span | 2025 - 2025 (1) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 1 |