To Touch the Face of God The Sacred, the Profane, and the American Space Program, 1957-1975

To Touch the Face of God... support s the importance of the strength of individual faith, the power of community, and the American need for both heroes and villains of biblical proportions to change the world. -- David Rosman New York Journal of Books 2012 Oliver analyses spaceflight and religion in a sophisticated manner, well informed by the scholarly literature of 'new aerospace history,' which examines intersections between space history and other disciplines or themes... Oliver engages histories of theology and religious practice in a broad conversation of motivations, implications, transformations and reinforcements of religion in the history of spaceflight. -- Margaret Weitekamp Times Higher Education 2013 Religiouis and science colletions alike will relish this survey. Midwest Book Review 2013