Red cosmos K.E. Tsiolkovskii, grandfather of Soviet rocketry /

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Autor Principal: Andrews, James T., 1961-
Autor Corporativo: ebrary, Inc
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:inglés
Publicado: College Station : Texas A & M University Press, c2009.
Edición:1st ed.
Series:Centennial of flight series ; no. 18.
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Table of Contents:
  • Prelude before Tsiolkovskii: Russian rocketry from Peter the Great to the nineteenth century
  • Introduction envisioning the cosmos: K. E. Tsiolkovskii, Russian public culture, and the mythology of Soviet cosmonautics, 1857-1964
  • Beginnings, teaching science in a provincial context: Tsiolkovskii's years in the Russian locale, 1857-1917
  • Dreaming of the cosmos: early scientific and technical experimentation in pre-1917 Kaluga, Russia
  • Getting serious about rocket flight in revolutionary Russia, 1917-1928
  • Cross-fertilizing futuristic literary genres: utopian science fiction or didactic popular technology in revolutionary Russia, 1890-1928
  • Stalin, Khrushchev, and the spaceman: technology, Soviet national identity, and the memorialization of a local hero in the dawn of Sputnik, 1928-1957
  • Epilogue and conclusion: chudo (wonder) or chudak (crank), the legacy of Tsiolkovskii in the Khrushchev era and beyond 1964.