# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/konstantin-tsiolkovsky
# Generated: 2026-08-31T14:41:15.169Z

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name: "Konstantin Tsiolkovsky"
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description: "He worked out the math for leaving Earth decades before anyone built the hardware. A deaf schoolteacher in a log house outside Moscow, filling notebooks with rocket equations that would guide both Soviet and American engineers into orbit."
tagline: "Russian and Soviet rocket scientist and pioneer of the astronautic theory (1857-1935)"
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deathDate: "1935-09-19"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Konstantin Eduardovich Tsiolkovsky was born on 17 September 1857 and spent most of his life in a log house on the outskirts of Kaluga, about 150 km southwest of Moscow. A recluse by nature, his unusual habits made him appear eccentric to his fellow townsfolk, but the work he produced there laid the theoretical foundation for modern rocketry and astronautics. Along with Hermann Oberth and Robert H. Goddard, he pioneered the science of space flight when it existed only on paper. His works later inspired Wernher von Braun and leading Soviet rocket engineers Sergei Korolev and Valentin Glushko, who turned his equations into the vehicles that carried the Soviet space program to success. He died on 19 September 1935, two decades before the first satellite proved him right.