Tsiolkovsky Publishes Proof That Rockets Can Launch Things into Space
Tsiolkovsky was probably the first person to realize the rocket was the means to travel into space, and the first to work out many essential principles. Deaf since childhood, he became a high school mathematics teacher. He theorized about airships and rockets beginning in the late 1800s and published his spaceflight ideas in Russian as early as 1903, (Study of Space by Reaction Devices).
The communist government that emerged in Russia in 1917 eventually proclaimed Tsiolkovsky as the father of Soviet rocket technology.
Event Date:
Thursday, January 1, 1903
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Konstantin Eduardovich Tsiolkovsky
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Sub Category:
Rocketry
People Connections:
Hermann Julius Oberth
Robert Hutchings Goddard
Technology & Innovation Connections:
Rockets and the Dream of Spaceflight
Event Year:
1 903
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