Talk:Konstantin Tsiolkovsky

Hey you all space experts. In Russia, later Soviet Union and now Russia again the science of astronautics is called cosmonautics, so why this term can not be eaqually accepted in English. According to my believes English language is very precise. I do not want to start another Edit Star War, but I just want to give my comment on this. Also all Russian space explorers are called cosmonauts, just to mention. (The article about astronauts at least mentions this fact....), but what we shall do about cosmonautics?

Secondly. Once I have already redirected this page to its proper name. I am a little bit tired of this after all. So let it stay in this lazybone shorthand style. We all recall John F. Kennedy, but we can't recall Konstantin Eduardovich... Why then we have such encyclopedias. But probably I am just swirling the words all around.... Best regards. --XJamRastafire 05:17, 17 Jan 2004 (UTC)

"The basic equation for the rocket movement is named after him"

what is the name of that equation ? A quick Google found

"Tsiolkovsky formula"

"The rocket equation published by Tsiolkovsky in 1903"

"the Tsiolkovsky rocket equation"

"Tsiolkovsky's rocket equation"

"Tsiolkovsky’s equation"

"the Tsiolkovsky-rocket-equation"

"the Ziolkovsky equation"

Is there a "standard" name ?

http://informatics.org/museum/tsiol.html http://scienceworld.wolfram.com/physics/RocketEquation.html http://ebtx.com/mars/rocketeq.htm http://www.fathom.com/course/21701743/session1.html

I haven't found any reference that supports the exact illness that caused his hearing loss (referred to in the article as scarlet fever). Does someone have that? Joe.julian 05:27, 16 June 2006 (UTC)[reply]

The majority of biographical references I have been able to find claim that he wasn't so much homeschooled as he was self taught. Is there a reference to support the homeschooling statement? Joe.julian 05:27, 16 June 2006 (UTC)[reply]