The purpose of this volume is to examine the effects of spaceflight on society through scholarly research, making use especially of the tools of the historian and the broader social sciences and humanities. Has the Space Age indeed had a significant effect on society? If so, what are those influences? What do we mean by an \“impact\” on society? And what parts of society? Conversely, has society had any effect on spaceflight? What would be different had there been no Space Age?