Konstantin Tsiolkovsky - in Popular Culture

In Popular Culture

  • Tsiolkovsky was consulted for the script to the early Soviet science-fiction film, Kosmicheskiy reys.
  • SF writer Alexander Beliaev has written a book in which a city and a space station are named after him.
  • A lunar station is named Tsiolkovsky in Stanisław Lem's novel Tales of Pirx the Pilot, story "The Conditional Reflex".
  • A space station is named Tsiolkovsky 1 in William Gibson's short story "Hinterlands".
  • The character Aeolia Schenberg in the anime series Mobile Suit Gundam 00 is based on Tsiolkovsky.
  • The Zvezda module of the International Space Station has photos of Tsiolkovsky and Yuri Gagarin posted on the wall above the aft hatchway.
  • The Space Elevators in the Horus Heresy novel Mechanicum are called "Tsiolkovsky Towers".
  • The Science ship in the Star Trek: The Next Generation episode "The Naked Now" is named after him.
  • Episode eight of Denpa Onna to Seishun Otoko is called "Tsiolkovsky's Prayer"
  • In the book Limit, written by Frank Schätzing in 2009, the theory of the Space Elevator is applied in a hypothetical future.
  • In the video-game Mass Effect 2, one of Konstantin Tsiolkovsky's quotes is used in an in-game advertisement.
  • In the comic book series Assassin's Creed: The Fall, the leader of the Assassin Order reads from The Will of the Universe.
  • He was also the inspiration for an episode of the Japanese anime, Pokemon.

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