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1. Wikipedia: Tsiolkovsky rocket equation
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The equation is named after and usually credited to Konstantin Tsiolkovsky, who derived and published the formula in 1903, though William Moore had outlined it as early as 1810 and elaborated further in a book published in 1813.
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