ABSTRACT

This conclusion presents some closing thoughts on the key concepts covered in the preceding chapters of this book. The book discusses the unique qualities of outer space-vastness, otherness, sublimity, timelessness, spacelessness are just as integral to extra-terrestrial projections of US geopower, as its well-known capacity to function as an Archimedean high point to monitor and control the surface, and atmosphere, of the Earth. It focuses on the United States, and more specifically NASA, the implications of this cosmic projection of geopower - the American transcendental state are global in reach, from enabling and shaping imperialistic ideologies to fuelling the extension of technocratic managerialism. The book presents how the Earthrise photograph from NASA's Apollo 8 mission have stimulated new cosmic imaginations including 'spaceship' Earth, Noetic science, global political ecologies that defied nationalistic appropriations by inferring a human transcendence. It reveals American spaceflight also sheds light on seldom acknowledged connections between religious and vertical geopolitics and technocracy.