Normality & NASA: Culture and Sexuality in the US Cold War

• Anna G. Creadick, Perfectly Average: The Pursuit of Normality in Postwar America (Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 2010);
• Matthew Hersch, Inventing the American Astronaut (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2012);
• Patricia Santy, Choosing the Right Stuff: The Psychological Selection of Astronauts and Cosmonauts (Westport: Praeger Publishers, 1994);
• David K. Johnson, Lavender Scare: The Cold War Persecution of Gays and Lesbians in the Federal Government (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2004);
• Mackenzie Calle, ‘The Gay Space Agency’, https://mackenziecalle.com/The-Gay-Space-Agency — Calle's photography examines astronaut selection and its steps in an artistic way!

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