Konstantin Tsiolkovsky (1857-1935) never finished high school, but he had dreams of flights to space. In his little wooden house in the outskirts of Kaluga he created his own models and tin structures ...

Yury Gagarin said that during his flight he had been able to see how precise Tsiolkovsky’s conclusions on all the factors of space flight were. 155 years ago, on September 17, Konstantin Tsiolkovsky, ...

Rockets had been used on the battlefield for hundreds of years before Konstantin Tsiolkovsky dreamed of the possibility of space flight. But in working out how they could thrust people upwards, above ...

On April 20, as a part of the First in Space campaign, a wreath-laying ceremony was held at the monument to Konstantin Tsiolkovsky in the town of Borovsk in the Kaluga region. Winners of the First in ...

"Russia must “keep the leader’s experience of the manned flights and catch up in other space exploration programs,” Putin said, adding that to achieve this, Russia is already constructing new ...

Today’s aerospace engineers got where they are by standing on the shoulders of giants … plus some weirdos. Read on for some of the many ways people thought we’d be able to travel across the universe.

Everything considered, the Soviet space effort demonstrated more brilliance and ingenuity - certainly greater courage and tenacity - than did the victorious American one. More important for what was ...

Once the domain of oracles, astrologers, sooth-sayers, and writers of science fiction, the future is now much with many moderns. So much so that it takes half of Leningrad Popular Science Films Studio ...