sep 17, 1857 - Konstantin E. Tsiolkovski is Born

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Konstantin Tsiolkovski was a teacher, theorist, and astronautics pioneer, and is considered the father of cosmonautics and human spaceflight. A great thinker, he advocated for orbital space stations, solar energy, liquid rocket fuel, and most ambitiously, colonizing the Solar System.
solar energy, and colonization of the Solar System. He is best known for his “Research into Interplanetary Space by Means of Rocket
Power,” Published in 1903, the same year the Wright brothers achieved powered and controlled airplane flight, he created an equation based on Newton’s second law of motion, links the exhaust velocity of a rocket engine to the velocity of the vehicle itself.