37 Facts About Konstantin Tsiolkovsky

Konstantin Tsiolkovsky's father was successively a forester, teacher, and minor government official.

At the age of 9, Konstantin Tsiolkovsky caught scarlet fever and lost his hearing.

Konstantin Tsiolkovsky was not admitted to elementary schools because of his hearing problem, so he was self-taught.

Konstantin Tsiolkovsky spent three years attending a Moscow library, where Russian cosmism proponent Nikolai Fyodorov worked.

Konstantin Tsiolkovsky later came to believe that colonizing space would lead to the perfection of the human species, with immortality and a carefree existence.

Konstantin Tsiolkovsky is considered the father of spaceflight and the first person to conceive the space elevator, becoming inspired in 1895 by the newly constructed Eiffel Tower in Paris.

Konstantin Tsiolkovsky met and married his wife Varvara Sokolova during this time.

Konstantin Tsiolkovsky stated that he developed the theory of rocketry only as a supplement to philosophical research on the subject.

Konstantin Tsiolkovsky wrote more than 400 works including approximately 90 published pieces on space travel and related subjects.

Konstantin Tsiolkovsky wrote a paper called "Theory of Gases," in which he outlined the basis of the kinetic theory of gases, but after submitting it to the Russian Physico-Chemical Society, he was informed that his discoveries had already been made 25 years earlier.

Konstantin Tsiolkovsky developed the first aerodynamics laboratory in Russia in his apartment.

Konstantin Tsiolkovsky's work in the field of aerodynamics was a source of ideas for Russian scientist Nikolay Zhukovsky, the father of modern aerodynamics and hydrodynamics.

Konstantin Tsiolkovsky described the airflow around bodies of different geometric shapes.

Konstantin Tsiolkovsky first proposed the idea of an all-metal dirigible and built a model of it.

Konstantin Tsiolkovsky was not supported on the airship project, and the author was refused a grant to build the model.

Konstantin Tsiolkovsky's idea was to build an airplane with a metal frame.

Konstantin Tsiolkovsky derived the formula, which he called the "formula of aviation", now known as Konstantin Tsiolkovsky rocket equation, establishing the relationship between:.

The outward appearance of Konstantin Tsiolkovsky's spacecraft design, published in 1903, was a basis for modern spaceship design.

The publication of this article made a splash in the scientific world, and Konstantin Tsiolkovsky found many friends among his fellow scientists.

Konstantin Tsiolkovsky showed that the final speed of the rocket depends on the rate of gas flowing from it and on how the weight of the fuel relates to the weight of the empty rocket.

Konstantin Tsiolkovsky conceived a number of ideas that have been later used in rockets.

Konstantin Tsiolkovsky did much fruitful work on the creation of the theory of jet aircraft, and invented his chart Gas Turbine Engine.

Konstantin Tsiolkovsky first proposed a "bottom of the retractable body" chassis.

Konstantin Tsiolkovsky had been developing the idea of the hovercraft since 1921, publishing a fundamental paper on it in 1927, entitled "Air Resistance and the Express Train".

In 1929, Konstantin Tsiolkovsky proposed the construction of multistage rockets in his book Space Rocket Trains.

Konstantin Tsiolkovsky championed the idea of the diversity of life in the universe and was the first theorist and advocate of human spaceflight.

Still, Konstantin Tsiolkovsky supported the Bolshevik revolution, and eager to promote science and technology, the new Soviet government elected him a member of the Socialist Academy in 1918.

Konstantin Tsiolkovsky worked as a high school mathematics teacher until retiring in 1920 at the age of 63.

Konstantin Tsiolkovsky died in Kaluga on 19 September 1935 after undergoing an operation for stomach cancer.

Konstantin Tsiolkovsky bequeathed his life's work to the Soviet state.

Konstantin Tsiolkovsky influenced later rocket scientists throughout Europe, including Wernher von Braun.

In 1928, Konstantin Tsiolkovsky wrote a book called The Will of the Universe: The Unknown Intelligence, in which he propounded a philosophy of panpsychism.

Konstantin Tsiolkovsky believed humans would eventually colonize the Milky Way galaxy.

Konstantin Tsiolkovsky's thought preceded the Space Age by several decades, and some of what he foresaw in his imagination has come into being since his death.

Konstantin Tsiolkovsky did not believe in traditional religious cosmology, but instead, and to the chagrin of the Soviet authorities, he believed in a cosmic being that governed humans as "marionettes, mechanical puppets, machines, movie characters".

Konstantin Tsiolkovsky adhered to a mechanical view of the universe, which he believed would be controlled in the millennia to come through the power of human science and industry.

Konstantin Tsiolkovsky wrote a few works on ethics, espousing negative utilitarianism.