Red cosmos K.E. Tsiolkovskii, grandfather of Soviet rocketry /
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| Fformat: | Electronig eLyfr |
| Iaith: | Saesneg |
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College Station :
Texas A & M University Press,
c2009.
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| Rhifyn: | 1st ed. |
| Cyfres: | Centennial of flight series ;
no. 18. |
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| Mynediad Ar-lein: | An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view |
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Dim Tagiau, Byddwch y cyntaf i dagio'r cofnod hwn!
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Tabl Cynhwysion:
- 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.