TY - BOOK ID - 137266327 TI - Red Cosmos: K. E. Tsiolkovskii, Grandfather of Soviet Rocketry PY - 2009 SN - 1299053599 PB - [Place of publication not identified] Texas A&M University Press DB - UniCat KW - Authors, Russian KW - Astronautics KW - Engineers KW - Literary Criticism KW - Technology & Engineering KW - Biography & Autobiography UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:137266327 AB - 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. ER -