Red cosmos
Subtitle: K.E. Tsiolkovskii, grandfather of Soviet rocketry
By: James T. Andrews.
Edition: 1st ed.
Series: Centennial of flight series -- no. 18; Centennial of flight series -- no. 18.
Publisher: Texas A & M University Press; Texas A&M University Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: College Station
Language: eng
Number of pages: 168
ISBN-13: 9781603441179
Subjects: T︠S︡iolkovskiĭ, K. -- 1857-1935; Aerospace engineers -- Soviet Union -- Biography; Authors, Russian -- Biography; Authors, Soviet -- Biography; Science fiction, Soviet -- History and criticism; Astronautics -- Russia -- History; Astronautics -- Social aspects -- Soviet Union
Genres: Biography.
Other titles: K.E. Tsiolkovskii, grandfather of Soviet rocketry
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Prelude before Tsiolkovskii: Russian rocketry from Peter the Great to the nineteenth century; title: Introduction envisioning the cosmos: K. E. Tsiolkovskii, Russian public culture, and the mythology of Soviet cosmonautics, 1857-1964; title: Beginnings, teaching science in a provincial context: Tsiolkovskii's years in the Russian locale, 1857-1917; title: Dreaming of the cosmos: early scientific and technical experimentation in pre-1917 Kaluga, Russia; title: Getting serious about rocket flight in revolutionary Russia, 1917-1928; title: Cross-fertilizing futuristic literary genres: utopian science fiction or didactic popular technology in revolutionary Russia, 1890-1928; title: Stalin, Khrushchev, and the spaceman: technology, Soviet national identity, and the memorialization of a local hero in the dawn of Sputnik, 1928-1957; title: Epilogue and conclusion: chudo (wonder) or chudak (crank), the legacy of Tsiolkovskii in the Khrushchev era and beyond 1964.