{"63803":{"#nid":"63803","#data":{"type":"event","title":"HTS Guest Speaker Matthew Hersch","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EMatthew Hersch, Postdoctoral Fellow, Huntington-USC Institute on \nCalifornia and the West will deliver a presentation entitlted \u0022The Man \nin the Gray Flannel Spacesuit: America\u0027s Corps, 1959-1979.\u0022\u0026nbsp; Below is the abstract for his talk.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EDespite periods of celebrity, astronauts\n have nearly always been \u201corganization men\u201d: middle class strivers \nexpert in managing the demands of large institutions. \u0026nbsp;As celebrities in\n a growing government agency, astronauts of the 1960s balanced a \ndetermination to meet the expectations of their superiors with a desire \nto gain more control over their work and lives. Despite occasional \nprofessional and personal stumbles, their culture remained largely \nunchallenged for half-a-decade, as successive groups of astronauts \naccepted and reinforced the standards of conduct, professional outlook, \nand workplace dynamics of the earliest spacemen. \u0026nbsp;The arrival of \nscientists into the astronaut corps in the late-1960s undermined the \nauthority of NASA\u2019s pilot-astronauts and signaled a fundamental shift in\n both national space policy and the space workplace. \u0026nbsp;Having enjoyed \nunprecedented celebrity and authority in the 1960s but no longer in the \nspotlight, astronauts of the 1970s adjusted to a work culture that \nplaced them more firmly under the control of NASA management and \ndemanded new skills of negotiation and adjustment. Meanwhile, NASA \nincreasingly sought to capitalize on the public fascination with space \ntravel its astronauts had inspired.\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EMatthew Hersch, Postdoctoral Fellow, Huntington-USC Institute on California and the West will deliver a presentation entitlted \u0022The Man in the Gray Flannel Spacesuit: America\u0027s Corps, 1959-1979.\u0022\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":"","uid":"27228","created_gmt":"2011-01-24 10:07:29","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 01:53:52","author":"LaDonna Bowen","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","field_event_time":{"event_time_start":"2011-02-07T15:00:00-05:00","event_time_end":"2011-02-07T16:30:00-05:00","event_time_end_last":"2011-02-07T16:30:00-05:00","gmt_time_start":"2011-02-07 20:00:00","gmt_time_end":"2011-02-07 21:30:00","gmt_time_end_last":"2011-02-07 21:30:00","rrule":null,"timezone":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"63935":{"id":"63935","type":"image","title":"Matthew Hersch","body":null,"created":"1449176708","gmt_created":"2015-12-03 21:05:08","changed":"1475894561","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:42:41","alt":"Matthew Hersch","file":{"fid":"191899","name":"Matthew_Herschcropped.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/Matthew_Herschcropped_0.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/Matthew_Herschcropped_0.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":6471,"path_740":"http:\/\/tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/Matthew_Herschcropped_0.jpg?itok=MSObxlvT"}}},"media_ids":["63935"],"groups":[{"id":"1281","name":"Ivan Allen College of Liberal Arts"},{"id":"1288","name":"School of History and Sociology"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[{"id":"1336","name":"Astronaut"},{"id":"11435","name":"Georgia Tech Ivan Allen College"},{"id":"11776","name":"History technology and society"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[{"id":"1795","name":"Seminar\/Lecture\/Colloquium"}],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EJohn Krige\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EHistory, Technology and Society\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:john.krige@hts.gatech.edu\u0022\u003Ejohn.krige@hts.gatech.edu\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}