Red cosmos [[electronic resource] ] : K.E. Tsiolkovskii, grandfather of Soviet rocketry / / James T. Andrews

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910458587003321
• Autore: Andrews James T. <1961->
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: College Station, : Texas A & M University Press, c2009
• ISBN: 1-60344-360-6
• Edizione: [1st ed.]
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (168 p.)
• Collana: Centennial of flight series ; ; no. 18
• Disciplina: 629.4092; B
• Soggetti: Aerospace engineers - Soviet Union; Authors, Russian; Authors, Soviet; Science fiction, Soviet - History and criticism; Astronautics - Russia - History; Astronautics - Social aspects - Soviet Union; Electronic books.
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: 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.