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

ISBN-13: 9781603441681 / Angielski / Miękka / 2009

James T. Andrews

Opis

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.