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Konstantian Tsiolkovsky
 
 
Konstantian Tsiolkovsky
Date: 01.01.1903
By the end of the 19th century, soldiers, sailors, practical and not so practical inventors had developed a stake in rocketry. Skillful theorists, like Konstantian Tsiolkovsky in Russia, were examining the fundamental scientific theories behind rocketry. They were beginning to consider the possibility of space travel.

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