Konstantin Tsiolkovsky
Konstantin Tsiolkovsky
Konstantin Eduardovich Tsiolkovsky; Polish: Konstanty Ciołkowski; 17 September 1857 – 19 September 1935) was a Russian and Soviet rocket scientist and pioneer of the astronautic theory. Along with his followers, the German Hermann Oberth and the American Robert H. Goddard, he is considered to be one of the founding fathers of rocketry and astronautics. His works later inspired leading Soviet rocket engineers such as Sergei Korolev and Valentin Glushko and contributed to the success of the Soviet space program...
NationalityRussian
ProfessionScientist
Date of Birth5 September 1857
CountryRussian Federation
First, inevitably, the idea, the fantasy, the fairy tale. Then, scientific calculation. Ultimately, fulfillment crowns the dream.
The Earth is the cradle of Humanity. But one doesn't always live in the cradle.
All our knowledge - past, present, and future - is nothing compared to what we will never know.
Man will not always stay on Earth; the pursuit of light and space will lead him to penetrate the bounds of the atmosphere, timidly at first, but in the end to conquer the whole of solar space.
The Earth is the Cradle of the Mind -- but one cannot eternally live in a cradle.