The history of the X series of aircraft, with emphasis on the Bell X-1 and on the North American X-15 spaceplanes, and on Chuck Yeager's role in breaking the sound barrier. The development of the ...

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 ...

The plaque depicts Gagarin in a space suit and Konstantin Tsiolkovsky, father of Russia's space exploration, and Sergei Korolev, the man behind the first human flight to space. "On April 12 ...

Born in 1857, the Russian scientist Konstantin Tsiolkovsky is credited for laying the mathematical and theoretical foundations for rocketry. As the reclusive home-schooled child of a minor ...

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.

It was first proposed by Russian scientist Konstantin Tsiolkovsky in 1923, and at the time it involved sending ten-square-meter (108 square feet) mirrors to space to redirect sunlight to the ...

That they may want bread and water, and be astonied one with another, and consume away for their iniquity. And thou, son of man, take thee a sharp knife, take thee a barber’s rasor, and cause it ...

"Here's where space elevators are appealing." First imagined by Russian rocket scientist Konstantin Tsiolkovsky in the late 19th century, the space elevator would extend from the ground through ...

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 ...

“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 ...