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• Visions of flight
  Robert Goddard. Werner von Braun. John Glenn. All names that Americans associate with space travel. The literature available on these pioneers and other lesser known advocates of space travel is seemingly endless.
  
  James Andrews, associate professor of history, says three individuals are generally considered "fathers" of space travel.
  
  Goddard we've mentioned. Germany's Herman Oberth is not as famous as Goddard but numerous books have been written on this Rumanian born mathematician.
  
  Then there is Konstantin Tsiolkovskii of the former Soviet Union.
  
  "No one has ever tackled writing a biography of Tsiolkovskii in English," Andrews says.
  
  That is until now. Andrews' latest book, Visions of Space Flight: K.E. Tsiolkovskii, Russian Popular Culture, and the Roots of Soviet Cosmonautics 1857-1957, is forthcoming from Texas University Press. The book is included in Texas University Press' Centennial of Air Flight series.
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