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K.E. Tsiolkovskii, grandfather of Soviet rocketry

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K.E. Tsiolkovskii, grandfather of Soviet rocketry

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Texas A & M University Press, Texas A&M University Press
Language
English
Pages
168

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Subjects
Aerospace engineers, Astronautics, Authors, Russian, Authors, Soviet, Biography, History, History and criticism, Russian Authors, Science fiction, Soviet, Social aspects, Social aspects of Astronautics, Soviet Authors, Soviet Science fiction, Authors, russian, Science fiction, history and criticism, Astronautics, history, Soviet union, social conditions, Authors, biography, Soviet union, biography
People
K. T︠S︡iolkovskiĭ (1857-1935)
Places
Russia, Soviet Union

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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.

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Includes bibliographical references and index.

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College Station
Series
Centennial of flight series -- no. 18, Centennial of flight series -- no. 18.
Genre
Biography.
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K.E. Tsiolkovskii, grandfather of Soviet rocketry

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629.4092, B
Library of Congress
TL789.85.T8 A53 2009, TL789.85.T8A53 2009

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p. cm.
Number of pages
168

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OL22696203M
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1603441174
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9781603441179
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2008051128
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276995645

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