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Death of Konstantin Tsiolkovsky... Rockets pioneer
Death of Konstantin Tsiolkovsky... Rockets pioneer
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September 20, 1935
THE NEW YORK TIMES, September 20, 1935
* Konstantin Eduardovich Tsiolkovsky death
* Father of rockets & Astronautics
This 46 page newspaper has one column headlines on page 21: "TSIOLKOVSKI IS DEAD; DESIGNER OF ROCKETS"
"Willed All Works on Aviation to Soviet When He Felt His Illness Would Be Fatal". 1st report coverage on the death of this famous scientist who is one of the founding fathers of rocketry.
Other news, sports and advertisements of the day. Light browning, minor margin wear, otherwise good condition.
wikipedia notes: Konstantin Eduardovich Tsiolkovsky (September 17 [O.S. September 5] 1857 – September 19, 1935) was an Imperial Russian and Soviet rocket scientist and pioneer of the astronautic theory. Along with the German Hermann Oberth and the American Robert H. Goddard, he is considered to be one of the founding fathers of rocketry and astronautics. His works later inspired leading Soviet rocket engineers such as Sergey Korolyov and Valentin Glushko and contributed to the early success of the Soviet space program.
Tsiolkovsky spent most of his life in a log house on the outskirts of Kaluga, about 200 km (125 miles) southwest of Moscow. A misanthrope by nature, he appeared strange and bizarre to his fellow town-folk.
Category: The 20th Century
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