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020 _z9781603441179 (cloth : alk. paper)
020 _z1603441174 (cloth : alk. paper)
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035 _a(OCoLC)680622488
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100 1 _aAndrews, James T.,
_d1961-
245 1 0 _aRed cosmos
_h[electronic resource] :
_bK.E. Tsiolkovskii, grandfather of Soviet rocketry /
_cJames T. Andrews.
246 3 0 _aK.E. Tsiolkovskii, grandfather of Soviet rocketry
250 _a1st ed.
260 _aCollege Station :
_bTexas A & M University Press,
_cc2009.
300 _axviii, 147 p. :
_bill.
490 1 _aCentennial of flight series ;
_vno. 18
504 _aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505 0 _aPrelude 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.
533 _aElectronic reproduction.
_bPalo Alto, Calif. :
_cebrary,
_d2013.
_nAvailable via World Wide Web.
_nAccess may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries.
600 1 0 _aT͡Siolkovskiĭ, K.
_q(Konstantin),
_d1857-1935.
650 0 _aAerospace engineers
_zSoviet Union
_vBiography.
650 0 _aAuthors, Russian
_vBiography.
650 0 _aAuthors, Soviet
_vBiography.
650 0 _aScience fiction, Soviet
_xHistory and criticism.
650 0 _aAstronautics
_zRussia
_xHistory.
650 0 _aAstronautics
_xSocial aspects
_zSoviet Union.
655 7 _aElectronic books.
_2local
710 2 _aebrary, Inc.
830 0 _aCentennial of flight series ;
_vno. 18.
856 4 0 _uhttp://site.ebrary.com/lib/daystar/Doc?id=10411771
_zAn electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view
908 _a170314
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