As a reclusive home-schooled child, he passed much of his time by reading books and became interested in mathematics and physics. He was not admitted to elementary schools because of his hearing problem, so he was self-taught. At the age of 10, he caught scarlet fever and became hard of hearing. Tsiolkovsky spent most of his life in a log house on the outskirts of Kaluga, about 200 km(120 mi) southwest of Moscow. His works later inspired leading Soviet rocket engineers such as Sergei Korolev and Valentin Glushko and contributed to the success of the Soviet space program. Goddard, he is considered to be one of the founding fathers of modern rocketry and astronautics. Along with the French Robert Esnault-Pelterie, the German-Romanian Hermann Oberth and the American Robert H. Konstantin Eduardovich Tsiolkovsky, 17 September 1857 – 19 September 1935) was a Russian and Soviet rocket scientist and pioneer of the astronautic theory. The Tsiolkovsky rocket equation relates the delta-v (the maximum change of speed of the rocket if no other external forces act) with the effective exhaust velocity and the initial and final mass of a rocket (or other reaction engine). Even literary greats such as Kurt Vonnegut have included Titan in their fiction.The Tsiolkovsky rocket equation, or ideal rocket equation describes the motion of vehicles that follow the basic principle of a rocket: a device that can apply acceleration to itself (a thrust) by expelling part of its mass with high speed and move due to the conservation of momentum. Dick, and Isaac Asimov, as well as legendary “Star Trek” actress Nichelle Nichols. Titan has been a setting or subject in dozens of short stories and novels by giants of science fiction including Arthur C.
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Titan also appeared in the film “Star Trek Nemesis,” as well as an episode of “Star Trek: The Next Generation.” Several other television shows and films feature Titan, such as the film “Gattaca,” and the shows “Futurama” and “Eureka,” as well as the iconic anime series “Cowboy Bebop.” Dozens of video games also feature Titan, as do several comics from Marvel and DC, among others. Enterprise comes out of warp in Titan’s atmosphere in order to sneak up on the Romulan ship attacking Earth. Titan was famously featured in the 2009 film “Star Trek”-the U.S.S. The maximum diameter of Earth raindrops is about 0.25 inches (6.5 millimeters) while raindrops on Titan can reach diameters of 0.37 inches (9.5 millimeters), or about 50 percent larger than an Earth raindrop. Titan’s raindrops can also be pretty large. While Earth rain falls at about 20 miles per hour (9.2 meters per second), scientists have calculated that rain on Titan falls at about 3.5 miles per hour (1.6 meters per second), or about six times more slowly than Earth’s rain. Titan’s dense atmosphere, as well as gravity roughly equivalent to Earth’s Moon, mean that a raindrop falling through Titan’s sky would fall more slowly than on Earth. He or she would, however, need an oxygen mask and protection against the cold-temperatures at Titan’s surface are around minus 290 degrees Fahrenheit (minus 179 Celsius). Titan’s nitrogen atmosphere is so dense that a human wouldn’t need a pressure suit to walk around on the surface. Cassini's Views of Titan: False Color CompositeĪs exotic as Titan might sound, in some ways it’s one of the most hospitable worlds in the solar system.