Selected Works of Konstantin TsiolkovskyBy Konstantin Tsiolkovsky Konstantin Tsiolkovsky (1857 1935), a self taught Russian school teacher, is recognized as the first man to truly envision human space travel and habitation. Though well known in the states of the former Soviet Union, his work is scarcely known in the West. Inspired by the practitioners of the remarkable late nineteenth century Russian philosophical school known as Cosmism, Tsiolkovskys work, in the end, was a profound