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Konstantin Eduardovich Tsiolkovsky (Russian: Константин Эдуардович Циолковский, IPA: [kənstɐnʲˈtʲin ɪdʊˈardəvʲɪtɕ tsɨɐlˈkofskʲɪj] ⓘ; 17 September [O.S. 5 September] 1857 – 19 September 1935) [1] was a Russian rocket scientist who pioneered astronautics.
This list of Russian astronomers and astrophysicists includes the famous astronomers, astrophysicists and cosmologists from the Russian Empire, the Soviet Union and the Russian Federation This is a dynamic list and may never be able to satisfy particular standards for completeness.
Stepan Krasheninnikov, geographer, the first Russian naturalist, made the first scientific description of Kamchatka; Alexander Kruber, founder of Russian karstology; Nikolai Kudryavtsev, author of modern abiogenic theory for origin of petroleum, coordinated oil and gas exploration in Siberia Middendorf
The Russian Space Research Institute (Russian: Институт космических исследований Российской академии наук, Space Research Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences, SRI RAS, Russian abbreviation: ИКИ РАН, IKI RAN) is the leading organization of the Russian Academy of Sciences on space exploration to benefit fundamental science.
Scientists used radiocarbon dating to study ancient worms. For premium support please call: 800-290-4726 more ways to reach us
The theory of space exploration had a solid basis in the Russian Empire before the First World War with the writings of the Russian and Soviet rocket scientist Konstantin Tsiolkovsky (1857–1935), who published pioneering papers in the late 19th and early 20th centuries on astronautic theory, including calculating the Rocket equation and in 1929 introduced the concept of the multistaged rocket.
the first modular space station, Mir (upper left). The Konstantin E. Tsiolkovsky State Museum of the History of Cosmonautics (Russian: Государственный музей истории космонавтики имени К.Э.Циолковского) is the first museum in the world dedicated to the history of space exploration. [1]
While space is an airless vacuum, it is full of molecules that have odors when humans smell them in safe conditions.After returning from a spacewalk, astronauts have described unique scents. One ...