It's offered to your attention the old Soviet book "Works of rocketry" by Konstantin Tsiolkovsky - the first dreamer about space exploration! Tsiolkovsky became famous at the end of 19th century after the publication of his first work "Investigation of outer space by means of reactive devices".

The book is the most complete compilation of Tsiolkovsky's works devoted to space exploration:

Tsiolkovsky Konstantin Eduardovich was a philosopher, the great enthusiast of metal dirigible building and space exploration. Living in Russian city Kaluga, far from the capital in a small house, being half-deaf, self-educated scientist Tsiolkovsky worked as the teacher of mathematics in local school. His name became well-known in the world because of his exact predictions of the future of space exploration and rocketry! He foreknew and described in his works (1893, 1903 and 1914) the future principals of space flights using jet power and rockets, the weightlessness problem, survival in spaceship and the necessary equipment for that and for "space walks". The world is delighted with his clear ideas until nowadays.