Konstantin Tsiolkovsky ws a visionary Russian thinker, standing at the very foundations of their country's pioneering exploration of space.Tsiolkovsky's claim to fame as the man who first proposed the use of rockets for space travel rests largely on work done before the Bolshevik revolution in 1917, and it took the Soviet Russia some time to appreciate his unothodox ideas and not consider them a threat to her own revolutionary goals. Today Konstantin Tsiolkosky's works are universally recognized as the world's first scientifically sound proposals to use rockets for exploring space.In the 1920s, Tsiolkovsky learned about the work of German space pioneer Hermann Oberth, who, working with no knowledge of Tsiolkovsky's writing, published his work himself and would send it to leading scientists, without any response. In 1926, Tsiolkosky published, a bold 16-step program whereby human civilization could outlive its dying sun and settle the universe. Tsiolkowsky's publications are full of ideas that would later become common practice in aerospace engineering. He proposed using graphite rudders to steer a rocket in flight, cryogenic propellants to cool combustion chambers and nozzles, and pumps to drive propellant from storage tanks into the combustion chamber. He considered human factors as well - at the dawn of the Space Age, the first cosmonauts were armed by the accuracy of Tsiolkovsky's descrption of life in weightlessness. By the dawn of the Space Age in the 1950s, Tsiolkovsky's name would be recognized around the world, and he would be mentioned alonside Galileo, Kepler and Copernicus as one of the intellectual giants who furthered humanity's expansion beyond earth.
Casalino Pierluigi, 23th, October, 2013