February 2019
The challenge of procreation for future off-world settlers
... problem with ‘graviton generators’ or some other trope not available to us. Soviet scientist and astronautics pioneer Konstantin Tsiolkovsky (1857-1935) offered a solution for orbital space stations after he determined that spinning a large space...
July 2019
A reluctant American hero
... appreciated how important the Apollo 11 landing and moonwalk success was to long-term history. Writers such as Tsiolkovsky, HG Wells, Olaf Stapledon and Arthur C Clarke have described how humanity is on a gradual evolutionary route to spread out...
April 2020
Plasma Clipper - opening the age of sail, in space travel
... change you need and the velocity at which you are exhausting your propellant. This is known as the Tsiolkovsky rocket equation, or classical rocket equation. Plugging the above figures into this equation: equates to a mass ratio...
February 2022
Nutritional issues on interplanetary spaceflights
... Moscow, Russia. He is a Candidate of Medical Sciences, an Academician of the Russian Academy of Cosmonautics named after KE Tsiolkovsky and a Full Member of the International Academy of Astronautics (IAA). Mark S Belakovskiy is a Head of Department...
February 2022
Revolution and responsibility: the challenges of space
... that held us back to our good old Earth. After Cyrano de Bergerac and Jules Verne, it was Konstantin Tsiolkovsky, Robert Goddard, Hermann Oberth and Robert Esnault-Pelterie who worked to lay the foundations of astronautics and...
June 2022
Military space – how worried should we be?
... may not be as novel as they are being portrayed The original space-flight protagonists, best exemplified by Konstantin Tsiolkovsky were romantics interested in orbital stations and flights to the Moon, Mars, the solar system and beyond...
