The Russian Cosmism
Konstantin Tsilkovsky and space travel
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https://doi.org/10.11606/issn.2447-2158.i12p1-17Keywords:
Cosmism, Tsiolkovsky, Science, space travel, occult knowledge.Abstract
The Soviet Space Program was an important milestone in the history of the communist republics. In 1957 the USSR launches the first object into orbit, the Sputnik satellite, and in 1961 the Vostok spacecraft takes Iuri Gagarin (1934-1968), the first man to go into space. The Soviets are way ahead of their biggest opponent at the time, the United States. But this entire enterprise was responsible for a self-taught mathematician from a small Russian town called Kaluga. His name was Konstantin Tsiolkovsky (1857–1935), responsible for the mathematical equation that would enable the USSR to catapult its rockets and history into modernity.
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