Konstantin Eduardovich Tsiolkovsky was the fifth of 18 children born to an impoverished Polish immigrant. At the age of 10, he developed scarlet fever, ... Quotes by Tsiolkovsky ...

Russian scientist Konstantin Tsiolkovsky (1857-1935) is considered one of the fathers of rocketry and aeronautics. As a result of a childhood bout with scarlet fever, he was almost totally deaf ...

Russian scientist Konstantin Tsiolkovsky (1857-1935) is considered one of the fathers of rocketry and aeronautics. As a result of a childhood bout with scarlet fever, he was almost totally deaf ...

Konstantin Tsiolkovsky still looks to space as there’s a statue of him outside the Sir Thomas Brisbane Planetarium, in Brisbane. Duncan Waldron, Sir Thomas Brisbane Planetarium, Author provided.