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Red cosmos : K.E. Tsiolkovskii, grandfather of Soviet rocketry /
Long before the space race captured the world?s attention, K. E. Tsiolkovskii first conceived of multi-stage rockets that would later be adapted as the basis of both the U.S. and Soviet rocket programs.?Often called the grandfather of Russian rocketry, this provincial scientist was even sanctioned b...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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College Station :
Texas A & M University Press,
©2009.
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| Colección: | Centennial of flight series ;
no. 18. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 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.