In tsiolkovsky's life, he was most interested in, spent the most energy and achieved the greatest success in aerospace. At an early age, questions about interstellar travel began to attract him strongly. He recalled in 19 1 1: For a long time, like others, I thought the rocket was just a useless toy.
It is difficult for me to recall exactly how I started to calculate the problem about rockets. For me, the first seeds of space flight thought were sown by jules verne's fantasy novels, and they formed a clear direction in my mind. I began to regard it as a serious activity.
Major achievements
He has written more than 400 works, including about 90 publications on space travel and related topics. His works involve rocket design, steering thrusters, multistage superchargers, space stations, airlocks that introduce spacecraft into space vacuum, and closed-loop biological systems that provide food and oxygen for space colonies.
1883, in a paper entitled "Free Space", tsiolkovsky formally proposed to use the reaction device as the propulsion power of space travel tools. His qualitative explanation of this rocket power is that the theoretical basis of rocket motion is Newton's third law and the law of conservation of energy.
These ideas were further developed in the science fiction novel On the Moon published by 1893 and the Earth-Moon Phenomenon and the Effect of Gravitation written by 1895. 1896, he began to study the related problems of interstellar navigation in theory, and further clarified that only rockets can achieve this goal. 1897, he deduced the famous equation of rocket motion.