That work was followed three years later by Kosmicheskie Raketnye Poezda (The Space Rocket Trains), which advanced Tsiolkovsky’s earlier thoughts about multi-stage rockets.

The Tsiolkovsky rocket equation is required to describe how ... The R-7 was a two-stage rocket with a maximum range of 7,000 ... Komarov was killed by multiple blunt force trauma during the ...

Rocket enthusiasts have dreamed for years of "multistage" rockets with detachable sections ... A two-stage rocket, fired from White Sands Proving Ground, N. Mex., shot up 250 miles, more ...

Spurred by the space race, von Braun’s five-stage Saturn 5 moon rocket followed not long after, and in July 1969 it took astronauts to another world for the first time.