Konstantin Tsiolkovsky, the Russian father of rocketry, was a self-educated man, but he developed insights into space travel and rocket science that are still in use over a hundred years later ...

Konstantin Tsiolkovsky in his workshop in Kaluga, Russia. On May Day 1935, thousands gathered in Red Square to celebrate the glorious Soviet state. It was near the end of the proceedings when the ...

The great-grandson of Konstantin ... Rocket Into Planetary Space reached Moscow. One newspaper editor, dazzled by Oberth’s ideas, asked in a headline “Is Utopia Really Possible?” Tsiolkovsky ...

A working model of Konstantin Tsiolkovsky's piloted space rocket in the Tsiolkovsky State Museum of the History of Cosmonautics in Kaluga. Source: Sergey Pyatakov/RIA Novosti In the final years of ...

Behind him, glittering in the sunshine, a 12-story-high steel arrow blasts a cigar-shaped rocket high into the sky over the city. That’s how generations of Russians knew Konstantin Tsiolkovsky ...

Rockets had been used on the battlefield for hundreds of years before Konstantin Tsiolkovsky dreamed of ... created a more accurate battlefield rocket in the early 19th century, with an improved ...

Many of today’s advances in cosmonautics were conceived by Russian scientist Konstantin ... determines that rocket propulsion is the only means of transportation in space. Tsiolkovsky’s ...

When we think about early pioneers in rocketry, three names come to mind: Hermann Oberth, Robert Goddard, and Konstantin Tsiolkovsky ... first to experiment with rocket powered vehicles.