On December 5, the Russian Center of Trans-Dniester Shevchenko State University hosted the roundtable “Russian Genius of Cosmonautics – Konstantin Tsiolkovsky” (dedicated to his 155th anniversary). Ph ...

The festival, which runs from April 12-16, is being held in the city where Konstantin Tsiolkovsky lived for over four decades until his death in 1935. The play, penned by Gleb Danilov of Kaluga's ...

Bearded, profoundly deaf and somewhat eccentric, Tsiolkovsky's theoretical work means he is, for many, the "father of space travel". He died in 1935, and so never saw his research come to fruition.

“Earth is the cradle of humanity, but one cannot live in a cradle forever,” Konstantin Tsiolkovsky, one of the founding fathers of rocket science, once said. Since the late 1950s, humanity has ...

Konstantin Tsiolkovsky, a Russian scientist, proposed the idea of harnessing space-based solar power in 1923. Years later in 1941, American writer Isaac Asimov based a science-fiction story on ...

In 1903, Russian schoolteacher and mathematician Konstantin Tsiolkovsky penned an article titled: “Exploration of Cosmic Space by Means of Reaction Devices”, bringing the principles of ...

The space elevator idea dates back to 1895, when Russian scientist Konstantin Tsiolkovsky imagined a giant ladder reaching from Earth to space. A satellite in geostationary orbit, 36,000 km above ...