9:30–11:30 a.m.

15. Mirror Image Twins? Constructing Spaceflight in the Soviet Union and the United States
Marriott, Delaware Suite B

Chair:	Roger D. Launius, chief historian, National Aeronautics and Space Administration
Papers:	First in Space and Last in Openness: What Does the Death of Yuri Gagarin Tell Us about Mature Socialism? Cathleen S. Lewis, Smithsonian Institution The Moon in the Crosshairs: CIA Analysis of the Soviet Manned Lunar Program Dwayne A. Day, Congressional Budget Office Trusting the Machine: The Technopolitics of Automation in the Soviet Space Program Slava Gerovitch, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Comment:	Jonathan C. Coopersmith, Texas A & M University