Looking up a century ago, a vision of the future of space exploration
- Written by Alice Gorman, Senior Lecturer in archaeology and space studies, Flinders University
A statue of Konstantin Tsiolkovsky in Moscow, Russia.Shutterstock/VLADJ
In the early years of the 20th century a Russian scientist – now known as the father of astronautics and rocketry – wrote a fable exploring what life in space might be like in the future.
Konstantin Tsiolkovsky (1857-1935) suggested that, by 2017, war and conflict...
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