Lovell and Swigert, who just a few months earlier had named their lunar landing module Aquarius in honor of the musical, and who played the a lbum from Hair during the troubled Apollo 13 mission, ducked out of their front-row mezzanine seats not because of the nudity or the play’s depiction, during a drug-induced hallucination, of three astronauts shooting Catholic nuns with “ray guns.” Rather, the astronauts left Hair to protest “Don’t Put It Down,” a scene that satirized American patriotism by using the Stars and Stripes as a blanket and then threatening to burn it at a be-in. Classification: LCC TL789.8.U6 A55355 2017 | DDC 629.45/4-dc23 LC record available at 016041938 For Stacy, Riggs, and Leif f Contents Introduction: Launching the Sixties 1 1 Spaceship Earth: Civil Rights and NASA’s War on Poverty 11 2 Shooting (from) the Moon: NASA, Nature, and the New Left during the Vietnam War Era 54 3 Thinking Globally, Acting Locally: Cape Canaveral and Whole Earth Environmentalism 92 4 Heavenly Bodies: “Manned Spaceflight” and the Women’s Movement 137 5 The New Right’s Stuff: The Hippie Counterculture and the Rise of the Conservative Crescent 183 Conclusion: Grounding the Space Race 228 Notes 241 Acknowledgments 347 Illustration Credits 351 Index 353 Introduction Launching the Sixties During an evening performance of Hair on June 4, 1970, just before the first-act curtain and soon a fter the entire cast paraded onto center stage buck naked, Apollo 13 astronauts James Lovell and John Swigert abruptly walked out of Broadway’s Biltmore Theater. | Science and state-United States-History-20th century. | Outer space-Exploration-United States-Public opinion-History-20th century. | Astronautics-Social aspects-United States- History-20th century. National Aeronautics and Space Administration-History-20th century. paper) Subjects: LCSH: Project Apollo (U.S.) | United States. | Includes bibliographical references and index. Description: Cambridge, Massachusetts : Harvard University Press, 2017. Title: Apollo in the Age of Aquarius / Neil M. maher f harvard university press Cambridge, Massachusetts, and London, England 2017 Copyright © 2017 by the President and Fellows of Harvard College All rights reserved Printed in the United States of America First Printing Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Names: Maher, Neil M., 1964–author. Table of contents : Dedication Contents Introduction: Launching the Sixties 1 Spaceship Earth: Civil Rights and NASA’s War on Poverty 2 Shooting (from) the Moon: NASA, Nature, and the New Left during the Vietnam War Era 3 Thinking Globally, Acting Locally: Cape Canaveral and Whole Earth Environmentalism 4 Heavenly Bodies: “Manned Spaceflight” and the Women’s Movement 5 The New Right’s Stuff: The Hippie Counterculture and the Rise of the Conservative Crescent Conclusion: Grounding the Space Race Notes Acknowledgments Illustration Credits Index Citation previewĪpollo in the age of aquarius f Apollo in the Age of Aquarius neil m.
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