{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","title":"Tim Marshall on Konstantin Tsiolkovsky, rocket man","description":"The Russian recluse, a scientific self-starter who left school at 14, developed pioneering theories of space travel that anticipated the great feats of the Space Race fifty years later. Read by Sebastian Brown.\n\nEngelsberg Ideas (https://engelsbergideas.com/) is funded by the Axel and Margaret Ax:son Johnson Foundation for Public Benefit (https://axsonjohnsonfoundation.org/) .\n\n Image: Soviet poster featuring a portrait of Konstantin Tsiolkovsky (1857-1935). Credit: Alexeyev Filippov / Alamy Stock Photo","author_name":"The EI Podcast","author_url":"https://audioboom.com/channels/5029938-the-ei-podcast","provider_name":"Audioboom","provider_url":"https://audioboom.com","width":480,"height":95,"thumbnail_url":"https://audioboom.com/i/42405402/600x600/c","thumbnail_width":600,"thumbnail_height":600,"html":""}