Konstantin Tsiolkovsky was a Russian aeronautics research scientist who was born on September 17, 1857. He pioneered rocket and space research with his contributions in theorising problems of rocket propulsion and space travel. He was a self-educated academic who gained all his knowledge through reading and practice, as his deafness prevented him from joining school in early years. He died on 19 September 1935.
Tsiolkovsky was very interested in the philosophy of space as well as the engineering needed to make space flight possible. “The Exploration of Cosmic Space by Means of Reaction Devices”, one of his most significant works published in 1903, is regarded as the first academic paper on rocketry. Tsiolkovsky was the first to provide an estimate for the escape velocity required to obtain the smallest possible orbit around the Earth; he proposed his estimated 8 km/s could be achieved by means of a multistage rocket fuelled by liquid oxygen and liquid hydrogen, remarkably similar to the fuel system used by modern day rocket sequences. He stated, though that the velocity and range of a rocket were limited by velocity of the exhaust gases escaping the rocket. He also suggested quartz windows and an outer layer fabricated with refractory substances to protect the spacecraft from the heat build up while moving through the atmosphere , and air locks during atmospheric exit. He was also able to describe that the main characteristics of the motion of objects are determined only by the forces of interaction between distinguishable objects in a given mechanical system. He also deduced that the “Laws of Conservation of the Dynamic Magnitudes” (i.e. momentum and kinetic energy) are significantly relevant when talking about motion. The ex...
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A rocket in its simplest form is a chamber enclosing a gas under pressure. A small opening at one end of the chamber allows the gas to escape, and in doing so provides a thrust that propels the rocket in the opposite direction. Newton’s laws can be used to explain this his laws in the simplest terms can be explained like this:
Who could possibly be able to imagine the utter hopelessness and misery that a soviet prisoner experienced during Stalinism. Thousands of innocent men were taken from their families, homes, and lives, stripped of their dignity and banished to the harsh labor camps where they were to spend the rest of the days scraping out an existence and living day to day. This is exactly what Alexander Solzhenitsyn tries to express in his masterpiece work One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich. Solzhenitsyn gives the reader a glimpse into the life of every man who ever experienced this hardship and shares the small acts of thriving humanity that are sparingly, but unendingly passed through their dreary lives and offer a bit of comfort to help them get through a single hour, a day, or even just a meal time. Solzhenitsyn uses One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich to portray the endurance of humanity through out terrible hardships and shows the strength of the human spirit.
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Although the two countries never said that The Space Race was a competition, everyone knew it was because the two countries were already competing for weapons. The Soviets “won” the first “round” by shooting an item into space, Sputnik 1; this became the first human made satellite to be launched into space. This accomplishment had triggered the Space Race. About four months later, Wernher von Braun, a German engineer and space architect, and the US launched their first satellite, known as Juno 1. Wernher von Braun was said to be the “Father of Rocket Science”. Although Von Braun was a Nazis, he was allowed protection and entrance into America.
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Chekhov is part of a non-typical category of artists, because he did not believed in his genius, on the contrary, there are evidence that he believed that his work will not conquer time and posterity. Spectacular, just like Russia at the border between the 19th and 20th century, Chekhov was born the son of serfs in 1860 (Tsar Alexander will abolish serfdom in 1861) only to become a landlord 32 years later, and a neighbor of Prince Shakovskoi. He bought the Melikhovo estate (unconsciously imitating Tolstoy, the patriarch of Iasnaia Polyana), not far from Moscow, with 13 thousand rubles of which he has paid an advance of five thousand.
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