April 2026
Exploring Mars – the key issues
... they discovered pushed the arts and sciences in new and surprising directions. Russian astronautics pioneer Konstantin Tsiolkovsky, who published much of the mathematical underpinnings of early spaceflight in 1903, said it best: our planet is “the...
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...
