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

Red Cosmos: K. E. Tsiolkovskii, Grandfather of Soviet Rocketry
ISBN-10
1603443606
ISBN-13
9781603443609
Category
Aerospace engineers
Pages
147
Language
English
Published
2009
Publisher
Texas A&M University Press
Author
James T. Andrews

Description

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.

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