#RussianInSpace

#RussianInSpace 🚀🇷🇺 169 years ago, #OTD in 1857, #KonstantinTsiolkovsky was born, a pioneering Russian scientist considered one of the founding fathers of modern rocketry and cosmonautics. K.Tsiolkovsky was far from a traditional scientist. He never obtained a formal degree and attended elementary school for only three years due to severe childhood hearing loss. Despite these barriers, he became a visionary inventor and thinker whose foundational works on rocketry paved the way for humanity's…