A travelogue of historic Kaluga, Russia, shot during our satellite programming there in December.
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Here, in 1903, pioneering space flight theorist Konstantin Tsiolkovsky proved mathematically that rockets would make travel beyond our atmosphere a possibility. By 1929, he had worked out the practical specifics. It would be decades before the technology caught up. A school teach by trade, Tsiolkovsky spent most of his life living in a log cabin on the outskirts of the city, taken for a bizarre recluse by his fellow Kalugans. Tsiolkovsky died in 1935, but in 1961 Yuri Gagarin laid the corner stone of theState Museum of the History of Cosmonautics in his name, mere months after becoming the first human in space. But space was only the start of Tsiolkovsky's ideas: he believed that colonizing the solar system was just a step, one that would eventually bring the human race to immortality.