Into the Extreme av Valerie Olson

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<DIV><P><B>The first book-length, in-depth ethnography of U.S. human spaceflight</B><BR/><BR/> What if outer space is not outside the human environment but, rather, defines it? This is the unusual starting point of Valerie Olson’s <I>Into the Extreme</I>, revealing how outer space contributes to making what counts as the scope and scale of today’s natural and social environments. With unprecedented access to spaceflight worksites ranging from astronaut training programs to life science labs and architecture studios, Olson examines how U.S. experts work within the solar system as the container of life and as a vast site for new forms of technical and political environmental control. </P><P>Olson’s book shifts our attention from space’s political geography to its political ecology, showing how scientists, physicians, and engineers across North America collaborate to build the conceptual and nuts-and-bolts systems that connect Earth to a specifically ecosystemic