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Konstantin Tsiolkovsky was a Russian rocket scientist who pioneered astronautics and is considered one of the founding fathers of modern rocketry and astronautics. Along with Hermann Oberth and Robert H. Goddard, he is one of the pioneers of space flight. Tsiolkovsky's works later inspired Wernher von Braun and leading Soviet rocket engineers Sergei Korolev and Valentin Glushko, who contributed to the success of the Soviet space program. He spent most of his life in a log house on the outskirts of Kaluga, about 200 km southwest of Moscow, and was a recluse by nature. Tsiolkovsky's unusual habits made him appear eccentric to his fellow townsfolk. Tsiolkovsky was a Russian citizen and worked as a military flight engineer, mathematician, inventor, writer, science fiction writer, physicist, philosopher, astronomer, scientist, and cosmologist. The Konstantin Tsiolkovsky State Museum in Kaluga, Russia, is dedicated to his life and work.