A Cultural History of Early Spaceflight
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Michael G. Smith is an associate professor of history at Purdue University.
List of Illustrations List of Tables Introduction Part 1. The Surveillance of Outer Space and the Russian Empire 1. Envisioning the Biological Universe 2. Mystical Economies of Earth and Space 3. The Mechanics of Interplanetary Travel Part 2. The Mastery of Time and the Bolshevik Revolution 4. Lyrical Cosmism of the Russian Revolution 5. The Pioneers and the Spaceflight Imperative 6. Rocket Spaceships as Science Fictions 7. The Origins and Ends of Life on Earth Part 3. The Rise of Rocket Science and the Soviet Union 8. The First Foundations of Astronautics 9. A Race into the Stratosphere 10. Stalinism and the Genesis of Cosmonautics Conclusion Notes Selected Bibliography Index