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1857 – 1935Konstantin Tsiolkovsky (1857-1935)Died 19 September 1935, aged 78Tsiolkovsky was a Russian pioneer of astronautics who worked out the rocket equation and the theory of multistage rockets. His work later inspired the Soviet space programme.