This dimension groups pioneers of spaceflight by the year they were born. Wikipedia notes that early milestones such as "the first human spaceflight (Yuri Gagarin aboard Vostok 1) in 1961" were achieved by a generation born decades before spaceflight itself existed. Browsing by birth year lets a visitor compare pioneers from the same generation.
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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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