February 2020
Visions of spaceflight before the Space Age
...men are widely recognised as the fathers of rocketry for spaceflight – Konstantin Tsiolkovsky (Russia), Hermann Oberth (Romania/Germany), and Robert Goddard (USA). Tsiolkovsky published several small books on space travel and cosmology (the expansion...
April 2020
Reviving Russia’s space programme
... yet fully died out. Older people had higher incomes and pensions and had nowhere else to go. Tsiolkovsky city, Vostochny. From the arrival of Rogozin, a sustained effort was made to interest young people - boys and...
December 2014
From the green economy to green space
....ru/trend/accident_Proton_GLONASS_02072013/. 11 Klushnikov V. Yu. Main directions of implementing “green” technologies in the space industry. K.E. Tsiolkovsky and innovative astronautics development: Materials from XLVIII Academic reading in memory...
February 2016
Space – Overcoming Our Limitations
.... Back at the turn of the 20th century, a pioneer of astronautics theory Konstantin Tsiolkovsky believed that humanity is destined to colonise space. As Tsiolkovsky succinctly put it, ‘Earth is the cradle of humanity, but one cannot live in the...
27 November 2015
Space Elevator Could be Made out of Diamonds
... concept of a space elevator was first proposed in 1895 by Russian scientist Konstantin Tsiolkovsky, who claimed to have been inspired by the Eiffel Tower in Paris. Tsiolkovsky had suggested that a similar tower could be built for reaching into space...
March 2016
Mining outer space may be cool but is it legal?
...See, e.g., Verne, J: Hector Servadac, Voyages et Adventures a traverse le Monde Solaire (“Off on a Comet”), 1877. 2 See, e.g., Tsiolkovsky, K.E.: The Exploration of Cosmic Space by Means of Rocket Propulsion, Moscow, 1903. The first in-depth analysis...
