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Essay / The Pioneers of Space Travel: The Pioneers of Space Travel
Introduction: Three Space Pioneers Konstantin Tsiolkvsky, Robert H. Goddard and Werner von Braun are considered the pioneers of space travel because they tested and created their own creations to achieve a greater flight or even a possible flight for the rocket.Body: Konstantin was born on September 17, 1857 in Spassky District, Ryazan Oblast (Russian Empire) and he died on September 19, 1935 in Kaluga, Russia, at the age of 78. His education and family life, at the age of ten he had scarlet fever, it affected his hearing, he was the 5th child out of 8 children, Konstantin's education was not aloud because of his audition, but he was self-taught by creating an interest in space. Konstantin Tsiolkvsky developed ideas about space travel that are still used 100 years later and offered to direct the rockets. Konstantin was a school teacher and scientist, he proposed the idea of space exploration and he published in 1903 the suggestion that liquid propellants worked better to achieve greater flight. In order to achieve its greatest range, the rocket's speed and range were limited only ...