Konstantin Tsiolkovsky

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Konstantin Tsiolkovsky (17 September 1857 - 19 September 1935) was a Russian and Soviet aerospace engineer and astronautics visionary.


Personal Life

Spending most of his life in a log cabin hundreds of miles outside of Moscow, Tsiolkovsky was inspired at an early age by stories of fictional works about space travel. Taking to the art himself, he began to write science fiction for some time until his interest pushed him out of writing fiction and into writing research papers.

Though criticized by his peers for researching ideas that were trivial and out of reach at the time, he persevered and managed to pave the road for the future of rocketry, mainly in the later parts of the 20th century.

Scientific Contributions

In 1896, Tsiolkovsky discovered his, "formula of aviation,"

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