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Bezig met laden... The Red Rockets' Glare: Spaceflight and the Russian Imagination, 1857-1957 (Cambridge Centennial of Flight)door Asif A. Siddiqi
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Meld je aan bij LibraryThing om erachter te komen of je dit boek goed zult vinden. Op dit moment geen Discussie gesprekken over dit boek. With this pre-history of Russian space flight, the author seeks to tease out the processes by which popular enthusiasm for the concept of spaceflight eventually influenced Soviet policy and led to the Sputnik launch. Much of this comes down to the person of Konstantin Tsiolkovskii who, while more useful to the Soviet state as a dead hero, was certainly a personal inspiration and something of a mentor to individuals who later became key to creating the Soviet space program. That Tsiolkovskii had a personal role, as opposed to merely being a convenient icon, was a distinct revelation to me. Siddiqi also plays up the utopianism of the NEP of the Twenties, and how the quasi-occult fascination with escaping Earth offered an avenue to those who wished to partake of the scientific endeavor, but who did not have the formal training to be part of academic science and technology. Eventually this "volunteer" enthusiasm was co-opted by the Soviet state but Siddiqi doubts that there would have been a Soviet space program without this spontaneous outpouring of interest. ( ) geen besprekingen | voeg een bespreking toe
The Red Rockets' Glare is the first academic study on the birth of the Soviet space program and one of the first social histories of Soviet science. Based on many years of archival research, the book situates the birth of cosmic enthusiasm within the social and cultural upheavals of Russian and Soviet history. Asif A. Siddiqi frames the origins of Sputnik by bridging imagination with engineering - seeing them not as dialectic, discrete, and sequential but as mutable, intertwined, and concurrent. Imagination and engineering not only fed each other but were also co-produced by key actors who maintained a delicate line between secret work on rockets (which interested the military) and public prognostications on the cosmos (which captivated the populace). Sputnik, he argues, was the outcome of both large-scale state imperatives to harness science and technology and populist phenomena that frequently owed little to the whims and needs of the state apparatus. Geen bibliotheekbeschrijvingen gevonden. |
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Google Books — Bezig met laden... GenresDewey Decimale Classificatie (DDC)629.40947Technology Engineering and allied operations Other Branches Astronauts and Space TravelLC-classificatieWaarderingGemiddelde:
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