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.