The Russian rocket pioneer Konstantin Tsiolkovsky, who was puzzling over our silent skies a couple of decades before Fermi, was more optimistic. Spacefaring civilisations are all around us, he said, ...

We added the excitement of the wildly popular National Air Races and featured the work of rocket pioneers Robert Goddard and Konstantin Tsiolkovsky with their dreams of spaceflight and rocket ...

While science fiction characteristically featured the smaller space stations favored by Tsiolkovsky and von Noordung, writers also imagined grander structures. Some envisioned space stations ...

Tsiolkovsky advocated the theory of cosmism. He believed in the possibility of populating the universe with orbital stations. He wrote many philosophical works and several sci-fi novels on the ...

KOROLYOV /Moscow Region/, September 21. /TASS/. The Soyuz MS-22 Tsiolkovsky spacecraft carrying cosmonauts Sergey Prokopyev, Dmitry Petelin (who will become the third special TASS reporter at the ...

Konstantin Tsiolkovsky Transhumanism’s roots stretch all the way back to Russian futurism of the late 19th century, when Christian mystic philosopher Nikolai Fyodorov proposed that man’s ...

But there’s a catch: the Tsiolkovsky rocket equation. Often referred to as simply the “rocket equation”, it allows you to calculate (among other things) the ratio of a vehicle’s useful ...

Remember that when you consider people with the -ski names in Russia, like Konstantin Tsiolkovsky, Vaslav Nijinsky or Felix Dzerzhinsky – you can be sure that many of them have some Polish background.

a few enterprising Kerbalnauts are building custom controllers for this wonderful introduction to [Tsiolkovsky], [Goddard], and [Evel Kinevel]. [vladoportos] thought KSP could use custom gaming ...

He also brought on Joseph Henry, the first Secretary of the Smithsonian and the preeminent American physicist of his time, as his primary science adviser. During the Civil War, both the Union and the ...