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Konstantin Tsiolkovsky

Russian and Soviet rocket scientist and pioneer of the astronautic theory (1857-1935)

  • Fame68.8
  • Momentum2.2
  • Scientists rank#99
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  • Fame68.8
  • Momentum2.2
  • Scientists rank#99
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Lived 1857–1935, aged 78
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    77 languages
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  • Era
    1857–1935
    Aged 78
  • Awards
    6
    recognised works
Summary
Updated 2026-06-09

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.

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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, wh…

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Konstantin Tsiolkovsky
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Tolstoy was an advocate of non-resistance only because he was protected from people’s impudence by his innumerable friends.
— from Non-resistance or struggle -- a manuscript written in 1935
Konstantin Tsiolkovsky
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All the Universe is full of the life of perfect creatures.
— from "The Scientific Ethics", 1930
Konstantin Tsiolkovsky
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The blue distance, the mysterious Heavens, the example of birds and insects flying everywhere —are always beckoning Humanity to rise into the air.
— from "The Successes of Air Balloons in the XIX Century", 1901
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