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Red Cosmos - K. E. Tsiolkovskii, Grandfather of Soviet Rocketry (Hardcover, New)
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Red Cosmos - K. E. Tsiolkovskii, Grandfather of Soviet Rocketry (Hardcover, New)
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Long before the space race captured the world's attention, 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.
Often called the grandfather of Russian rocketry, this provincial
scientist was even sanctioned by Stalin to give a speech from Red
Square on May Day 1935, lauding the Soviet technological future
while also dreaming and expounding on his own visions of conquering
the cosmos. Later, the Khrushchev regime used him as a "poster boy"
for Soviet excellence during its Cold War competition with the
United States. Ironically, some revisionists have since pointed to
such blatant promotion by the Communist Party in an attempt to
downplay Tsiolkovskii's scientific contributions.
James T. Andrews explores the complexities of this man to show
that Tsiolkovskii was much more than either a rocket inventor or a
propaganda tool. He 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.
Mining a myriad of Russian archives, Andrews produces not only a
biographical account but also 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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