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CATHERINE L. NEWELL. Destined for the Stars: Faith, the Future, and America 19s Final Frontier

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Published: 08 July 2020
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Catherine L. Newell, an associate professor of religion and science at the University of Miami, is convinced that the Americans landed on the Moon thanks to secular faith in the myth of frontier and in American inventiveness. Not so much thanks to the Cold War. Not so much thanks to the success of Sputnik. Newell considers Bonestell's artwork and Bonestell's collaboration with Willy Ley, Werner von Braun, Walt Disney to be the originator of these myths. These people caught the attention of Americans to space travel.

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