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Konstantin Tsiolkovsky
Konstantin Tsiolkovsky
was born on September
17, 1857 in Russia. He
got sick with scarlet
fever when he was a ten
years old causing him to
became deaf.
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Konstantin Tsiolkovsky
His mom taught him how
to read and write. He
went to school in a
town called Vyatka.
When his mom died, he
stopped going to school
and decided to read
books.
He moved to Moscow to
study the books in the
Moscow library.
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Although scientists were impressed by him, he was
poor so he decided to get a job. He started teaching
math.
He had many ideas on how to create a flying machine
but he didn’t have the money to make it. He
dreamed about flying into space. He dreamed that
people would live on other planets. He wrote about
his dreams in books. He put bugs in little boxes
and attached them to kites so they could fly.
Konstantin Tsiolkovsky
Tsiolkovsky thought
gravity could help a
rocket fly. He thought
hydrogen and oxygen
could be used for fuel.
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Finally in 1897 he created a small wind tunnel.
Because of this he was given money to make a
larger one.
He studied how fast a rocket would have to move to
go into space. A war in Russia interrupted his
work.
After the war he wrote more than 500 papers. A
crater on the moon is named after him. It is named
“Crater Tsiolkovsky.”
Konstantin Tsiolkovsky
He died on September 19, 1935 in Kaluga. He is
honored in movies, on stamps and medals. There
are statues of him and kids learn about him in
school in Russia.
References
Lang, H. G., & Meath-Lang, B. (1995). Konstantin Eduardovich Tsiolkovsky. In A Biographical Dictionary: Deaf Persons in the
Arts and Sciences (pp.358-362). Westport, CT: Greenwood Press.
Zac, A. (2001, 2009). Tsiolkovsky. Retrieved on June 4, 2008 from the Russian Space Web
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