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Global Networking and the Contrapuntal Node: The Project Mercury Earth Station in Zanzibar, 1959-64

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dc.creatorParks, Lisa
dc.date.accessioned2022-06-21T12:55:14Z
dc.date.available2022-06-21T12:55:14Z
dc.date.issued2020
dc.description.abstractIn 1960, the US government and British protectorate of Zanzibar signed an agreement that allowed US contractors working for the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to build an earth station that would support Project Mercury, the first manned US satellite mission. This article focuses on the development of the Project Mercury earth station in Zanzibar during 1959-1964. To historicize the earth station’s establishment, the focus lies on the geopolitical and sociotechnical relations that resulted in the Zanzibar station.en
dc.identifier.doi10.28937/1000108413
dc.identifier.doihttp://dx.doi.org/10.25969/mediarep/18750
dc.identifier.urihttps://meiner.de/artikel/1000108413
dc.identifier.urihttps://mediarep.org/handle/doc/19896
dc.languageeng
dc.publisherFelix Meiner
dc.publisher.placeHamburg
dc.relation.isPartOfissn:1869-1366
dc.relation.ispartofseriesZMK Zeitschrift fĂĽr Medien- und Kulturforschung
dc.rights.urihttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/
dc.subjectMercury-Programmde
dc.subjectRaumfahrtde
dc.subjectsoziotechnische Beziehungende
dc.subjectProject Mercuryen
dc.subjecthuman spaceflighten
dc.subjectsociotechnical relationsen
dc.subject.ddcddc:500
dc.subject.ddcddc:600
dc.titleGlobal Networking and the Contrapuntal Node: The Project Mercury Earth Station in Zanzibar, 1959-64en
dc.typearticle
dc.type.statuspublishedVersion
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local.coverpage2022-06-21T15:11:04
local.source.epage57
local.source.issue1
local.source.issueTitleSchalten und Walten
local.source.spage41
local.source.volume11

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