Model, Tsiolkovsky Space Craft
name: label: Owner
content: Tsiolkovsky Space Museum
notes: label: Summary
content: Soviet model makers built this spacecraft based on the designs and notes of Konstantin Tsiolkovsky. Late in his life, much of Tsiolkovsky's theoretical work focused on ideas about transporting humans into space on board rockets. Although this model, reflecting the scientist's ideas, grossly overestimates the living space available on board a rocket, it does convey a sophisticated understanding of the physical constraints of space travel for that time. Among Tsiolkovsky's concerns were the effects of acceleration and weightlessness on the human body.
label: Summary
content: Gift of the Tsiolkovsky Russian National Space Museum, Kaluga, Russia.
place: label: Country of Origin
content: Union of Soviet Socialist Republics
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content: National Air and Space Museum Collection
label: Location
content: National Air and Space Museum in Washington, DC
label: Exhibition
content: Barron Hilton Pioneers of Flight
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of Tsiolkovsky Space Museum, Russia
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Air and Space Museum
identifier: label: Inventory Number
content: A20110015000
objectType: label: Type
content: MODELS-Science Fiction
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Materials
content: Plastic, metal, foam rubber, lacquer paints
label: Dimensions
content: 3-D: 36.7 × 132.1 × 38.3cm (1 ft. 2 7/16 in. × 4 ft. 4 in. × 1 ft. 3 1/16 in.)