Red Cosmos - K. E. Tsiolkovskii, Grandfather of Soviet Rocketry

Informationen zum Autor JAMES T. ANDREWS is an associate professor of modern Russian history at Iowa State University, where he has been director of EurAsian Studies and director of the Center for the Historical Studies of Technology and Science. Klappentext Often called the grandfather of Russian rocketry! 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. Mining a myriad of Russian archives! Andrews produces a study of Soviet technological propaganda! local science education! public culture in the 1920s and 1930s! and the cultural ramifications of space flight. Zusammenfassung K E Tsiolkovskii was a science popularizer! novelist! technical inventor! and visionary! whose science fiction writings included futuristic drawings of space stations long before they appeared on any engineer's drawing board. This title shows that Tsiolkovskii was more than either a rocket inventor or a propaganda tool.

Product details

• Authors: James T. Andrews
• Publisher: Texas A&M University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 19.10.2009
• EAN: 9781603441179
• ISBN: 978-1-60344-117-9
• No. of pages: 160
• Series: Centennial of Flight; Centennial of Flight
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature > Letters, diaries; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Natural sciences (general); Non-fiction book > Nature, technology > Biographies, autobiographies; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > General, dictionaries