Elon Musk’s SpaceX dominates the news these days, but a host of oddballs involved in space exploration came before him.

The sci-fi play centers on a meeting between the SpaceX CEO and Soviet pioneer of astronautics Konstantin Tsiolkovsky Read ...

The first challenge is finding something in space to attach the cable to. The solution is using satellites in geostationary ...

The great-grandson of Konstantin Tsiolkovsky, the “father” of Russian cosmonautics, Samburov (pronounced sam-BUR-off) is the president of the Tsiolkovsky Fund in Moscow, a group that educates ...

Ten years before they launched the world's first satellite, the two paused in front of a bust of Konstantin Tsiolkovsky, considered the father of cosmonautics. ITAR-TASS Over the past few years ...

The famous quote by the Soviet engineer Konstantin Tsiolkovsky, known as the father of astronautics, encapsulates the unstoppable drive of humans to explore other worlds. A desire that is becoming ...

The space elevator idea dates back to 1895, when Russian scientist Konstantin Tsiolkovsky imagined a giant ladder reaching from Earth to space. A satellite in geostationary orbit, 36,000 km above ...