Quote of the day
Whenever I was upset by something in the papers, [Jack] always told me to be more tolerant, like a horse flicking away flies in the summer.
Konstantin Tsiolkovsky

Born: September 5, 1857
Died: September 19, 1935 (aged 78)
Bio: Konstantin Eduardovich Tsiolkovsky was a Russian and Soviet rocket scientist and pioneer of the astronautic theory, of Polish, Russian, and Tatar descent. Along with his followers, the German Hermann Oberth and the American Robert H.