Konstantin Tsiolkovsky. Final 4pp of a letter, in Russian, signed, to an unnamed recipient, 8vo, Kaluga, May 1927 £1,000-1,500 Tsiolkovsky (1857-1935) was the father of theoretical rocketry. His letter concerns a gathering of others interested in rocket research and construction, an interest, he writes, which is starting to spread abroad from the USSR. This is probably a reference to the first ever exhibition on Rocketry and Space Exploration, organised in Moscow by the Association of Inventors which opened the previous month. He goes on to name various participants including Modestov, Ivanovsky, Dovydov and [Nikolai] Rynin, the latter a tireless promoter of space flight and four years later Tsiolkovsky’s biographer. The letter ends in typically pessimistic mood: “I am doubtful that we will ever achieve success, thinking of the time it will take tortures me. If you only knew the difficulties you would shudder with fear.”
Konstantin Tsiolkovsky. Final 4pp of a letter, in Russian, signed, to an unnamed recipient, 8vo, Kaluga, May 1927 £1,000-1,500 Tsiolkovsky (1857-1935) was the father of theoretical rocketry. His letter concerns a gathering of others interested in rocket research and construction, an interest, he writes, which is starting to spread abroad from the USSR. This is probably a reference to the first ever exhibition on Rocketry and Space Exploration, organised in Moscow by the Association of Inventors which opened the previous month. He goes on to name various participants including Modestov, Ivanovsky, Dovydov and [Nikolai] Rynin, the latter a tireless promoter of space flight and four years later Tsiolkovsky’s biographer. The letter ends in typically pessimistic mood: “I am doubtful that we will ever achieve success, thinking of the time it will take tortures me. If you only knew the difficulties you would shudder with fear.”
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