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Konstantin Tsiolkovsky

German physicist Ludwig Prandtl identified the boundary layer in 1904. His work led him to be known as the father of modern aerodynamics. Russian scientist Konstantin Tsiolkovsky and American physicist Robert Goddard followed, and Goddard s first successful liquid propellant rocket launch in 1926 earned him the title of the father of modern rocketry. [Pg.776]

Space-traveling projectiles (Konstantin Tsiolkovsky) Tsiolkovsky pubhshes The Exploration of Cosmic Space by Means of Reaction-Propelled Apparatus, in which he includes an equation for calculating escape velocity (the speed required to propel an object beyond Earth s field of gravity). He is also recognized for the concept of rocket propulsion and for the wind tunnel. [Pg.2050]

Konstantin Tsiolkovski showed that the mass AM of propellant consumed by a rocket of initial mass was equal to ... [Pg.148]

Konstantin Tsiolkovski formulated his equation around the end of the lO Century. He is considered to be the father of modem astronautics [MES 13]. [Pg.148]

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