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Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Undated. Forward dated 1960. Presumably 1963 as other copies listed for sale. Octavo, 472 pp. with 4 black and white illustrated pages plus 8 pp of illustrated pages at rear as the last of three supplements to the text, "Pages from a young man's notebook". Teal stipled boards with black and silver titles to cover and spine. Comprised of eleven chapters of stories and essays concerning aspects of space travel and life beyond the confines of the Earth. Translations by A. Shkarovsky, D. Myshne, V. Talmy and X. Danko.

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First edition. TSIOLKOVSKY'S MOST EXTENSIVE TREATISE ON SPACE FLIGHT. First edition, extremely rare, of Tsiolkovsky's most extensive account of space rockets. His work first appeared under the same title in the journals Nauchnoe Obozrenie (Scientific Review)in 1903 and inVestnik Vozdukhoplavania (Herald of Aeronautics) in 1911 and 1912. "Although the author says that the new edition comprises only some alterations and additions to the previous edition, this book dealt with an essentially new range of topics not treated in his earlier publications" (Rynin, p. 75). The present separate publication is the only practicable way to obtain the text of these seminal articles, which are almost unobtainable. Indeed, Tsiolkovsky himself notes in the present work: "It is rather difficult to obtain copies of my earlier works. Therefore, in this edition of mine I combine my previous works with my more recent achievements" (p. 4, translation from NASA TT F-243, p. 113). In his bibliography of works on spaceflight, NASA engineer Michael L. Ciancone writes: "Three men are widely recognized as the fathers of rocketry for spaceflightKonstantin Tsiolkovskii (Russia), Hermann Oberth (Germany), and Robert Goddard (United States). Tsiolkovskii developed the theory underpinning human spaceflight and wrote small books on space travel and cosmology (the expansion of humans into the cosmos). The 'holy grail' of this genre is an article he wrote in the May 1903 issue of Nauchnoe Obozrenie on 'Exploration of Space by Means of Reactive Devices' in which he established the 'rocket equation' and addressed various aspects of future spaceflight." "Tsiolkovsky had grasped the principle of reaction flight as early as 1883, and his 'Exploration of Space Using Reactive Devices' (1903) contains the first mathematical exposition of the reaction principle operating in space. In 'Issledovanie mirovykh prostranstv reaktivnymi priborami' . . . Tsiolkovsky set forth his theory of the motion of rockets, established the possibility of space travel by means of rockets, and adduced the fundamental flight formulas" (DSB). "Tsiolkovsky not only solved theoretically such age-old questions as how to escape from the Earth's atmosphere and gravitational field, but he also described several rockets. The first, conceived in 1903, was to be powered by liquid oxygen and liquid hydrogena very modern propellant combination" (Von Braun & Ordway, History of Rocketry and Space Travel(1975), p. 42). In the 1911 work, Tsiolkovsky summarizes the earlier work, addresses further technical issues, notably the effect of air resistance, and presents his views on colonizing space as a means to rejuvenate the human race, on the future development of mankind, on man's expansion throughout the limitless space of the universe, and on harnessing the Earth's energy resources in order to achieve those goals. In the present work published in 1926, Tsiolkovsky repeated the discussions in the 1903 and 1911/12 works, but went beyond them by analyzing in detail the conditions to be expected when the space rocket takes off, as well as the problems involved in living conditions: respiration, nutrition, etc. In this book he also touched upon the problem of using nuclear energy, anticipating its vast importance for space flight" (Konstantin Tsiolkovsky: Founder of Rocketry, Cosmonautics and Theory of Interplanetary Flights (1965), p. 9). OCLC lists British Library only. The most important contribution of Tsiolkovsky's 1903 paper was his solution of the basic problem of rocket dynamics, embodied in what is now known as the 'Tsiolkovsky rocket equation': if a rocket of initial mass M at take-off jettisons combustion products at speed U relative to the rocket (assumed to be constant), then, when the mass of the rocket has reduced to m its velocity will be V = U log(M/m). "Tsiolkovsky discovered and studied in detail the equation of the rocket motion with constant exhaust velocity and arrived at a very important mathematical result known as 'the Tsiolkovksy formula' It follows from Tsiolkovsky's formula for maximum velocity that: a. the greater the exhaust velocity, the greater the velocity of the rocket at the end of its powered flight. If the jet velocity is doubled the velocity of the rocket also increases two-fold; b. the velocity of the rocket at the end of its powered flight increases with the ratio of the initial weight of the rocket to that at the end of combustion. But the dependence here is more complicated and is formulated in the following proposition of Tsiolkovsky: 'When the mass of the rocket plus the mass of the explosives of the rocket motor increase in the geometrical proportion, the velocity of the rocket increases in the arithmetical proportion' The important practical conclusion to be drawn from Tsiolkovsky's formula is that if highest possible velocities are to be obtained at the end of the rocket's powered flight, it is far more advantageous to increase the exhaust velocity than to increase the quantity of fuel On the basis of his formula, Tsiolkovsky proved that with exhaust velocities of the order of 5 km/sec the rocket's velocity would be high enough for interplanetary flight" (Kosmodemyansky (1956), p. 65-67). "But his article on the theory of rocket dynamics also dealt with practical issues of rocket building, with the peculiarities and concrete design of individual assemblies, and of the rocket as a whole. Thus, for example: a) In 1903 Tsiolkovsky suggested using fuel components to cool the walls of the rocket engine. He recommended that the walls of the engine chamber and nozzle be made of two layers, and that the liquid fuel be pumped through one of them. The flowing substance thus cools the hot wall of the engine. It would also be necessary to make the inside surface of the chamber and the nozzle of a material with high heat conducting properties to provide for more efficient heat removal. This forced cooling of the hot engine wall would ensure continuou.