Download or read book Harnessing the Heavens written by Paul G. Gillespie and published by Imprint. This book was released on 2008-01-01 with total page 235 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Harnessing the Heavens brings together the leading scholars of national defense through space in one volume. These fourteen essays from the U.S. Air Force Academy's 21st Military History Symposium collectively provide a wide-ranging overview of humanity's efforts to use spaceflight and spacecraft, military and civilian, to advance national goals. With attention to the American, Soviet and Russian, and Chinese space programs, this volume carefully considers the political, technological, and social challenges of space, and gives the reader the best of the emerging and growing field of space history. -- Publisher's Description.