02724nam a2200433 a 4500001001200000003000800012006001900020007001500039008004100054010001700095020003900112020003600151040002100187035002100208043001200229050002800241082002000269100003000289245011200319246005400431250001200485260006100497300002600558490004200584504005100626505093900677533015201616600005701768650005001825650003301875650003201908650005201940650003501992650004802027655002902075710001702104830004302121856012602164ebr10411771CaPaEBRm        u        cr cn|||||||||081125s2009    txua    sb   s001 0beng c  z  2008051128  z9781603441179 (cloth : alk. paper)  z1603441174 (cloth : alk. paper)  aCaPaEBRcCaPaEBR  a(OCoLC)680622488  ae-ur---14aTL789.85.T8bA53 2009eb04a629.4092aB2221 aAndrews, James T.,d1961-10aRed cosmosh[electronic resource] :bK.E. Tsiolkovskii, grandfather of Soviet rocketry /cJames T. Andrews.30aK.E. Tsiolkovskii, grandfather of Soviet rocketry  a1st ed.  aCollege Station :bTexas A & M University Press,cc2009.  axviii, 147 p. :bill.1 aCentennial of flight series ;vno. 18  aIncludes bibliographical references and index.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.  aElectronic reproduction.bPalo Alto, Calif. :cebrary,d2013.nAvailable via World Wide Web.nAccess may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries.10a�T�Siolkovski�i, K.q(Konstantin),d1857-1935. 0aAerospace engineerszSoviet UnionvBiography. 0aAuthors, RussianvBiography. 0aAuthors, SovietvBiography. 0aScience fiction, SovietxHistory and criticism. 0aAstronauticszRussiaxHistory. 0aAstronauticsxSocial aspectszSoviet Union. 7aElectronic books.2local2 aebrary, Inc. 0aCentennial of flight series ;vno. 18.40uhttp://site.ebrary.com/lib/rucke/Doc?id=10411771zAn electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view