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The summertime of 1969 saw astronauts land on the moon for the very first time and hippie hordes descend on Woodstock for a famous music happening. For Neil M. Maher, the conjunction of these two era-defining incidents is not entirely coincidental. With its lavishly funded mandate to send a guy to the moon, Apollo became a litmus test in the 1960s culture wars. Many people thought it would reinvigorate a country that got lost its way, while for others it symbolized a colossal throw away of resources had a need to solve pressing problems at home. Yet Maher also discovers synergies between your space program and political activities of the age. Photographs of "Full Earth" as a dazzling blue marble heightened environmental understanding, while NASA's space technology allowed experts to track ecological changes internationally. The area agency's solely male workers sparked feminist debates about opportunities for women. Activists pressured NASA to apply its complex know-how to stopping the Vietnam Battle and supporting African Americans by reducing energy costs in metropolitan housing tasks. Against a backdrop of Saturn V moonshots and Neil Armstrong's huge leap for mankind, Apollo in the Age of Aquarius brings the cultural politics of the space race back down to planet Earth.
