Editing Konstantin Tsiolkovsky (section)

==Tributes==
[[File:Памятник Циолковскому.jpg|thumb|Monument to Konstantin Tsiolkovsky on Mira Square in Kaluga ]]
[[File:Боровск КЭЦ.JPG|thumb|Monument to Konstantin Tsiolkovsky in Borovsk ]]
* In 1964, [[Monument to the Conquerors of Space|The Monument to the Conquerors of Space]] was erected to celebrate the achievements of the Soviet people in space exploration. Located in Moscow, the monument is 107 meters (350 feet) tall and covered with titanium cladding. The main part of the monument is a giant obelisk topped by a rocket and resembling in shape the exhaust plume of the rocket. A statue of Konstantin Tsiolkovsky, the precursor of astronautics, is located in front of the obelisk.
* The [[Konstantin E. Tsiolkovsky State Museum of the History of Cosmonautics|State Museum of the History of Cosmonautics]] in [[Kaluga]] now bears his name. His residence during the final months of his life (also in Kaluga) was converted into a memorial museum a year after his death.
* The town Uglegorsk in [[Amur Oblast]] was renamed ''[[Tsiolkovsky, Amur Oblast|Tsiolkovsky]]'' by [[President of Russia]] [[Vladimir Putin]] in 2015. 
* The crater [[Tsiolkovskiy (crater)|Tsiolkovskiy]], the most prominent crater on the far side of the [[Moon]], was named after him. [[Asteroid]] [[List of asteroids/1001–2000#501|1590 Tsiolkovskaja]] was named after his wife.<ref>{{citation|title=The Life of Konstantin Eduardovitch Tsiolkovsky |publisher=Konstantin E. Tsiolkovsky State Museum of the History of Cosmonautics |url=http://www.informatics.org/museum/tsiol.html |access-date=22 September 2008 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120615044125/http://www.informatics.org/museum/tsiol.html |archive-date=15 June 2012 }}</ref><ref>{{citation|title=Konstantin E. Tsiolkovsky Scientific Biography |publisher=Konstantin E. Tsiolkovsky State Museum of the History of Cosmonautics |url=http://www.informatics.org/museum/tsilbio.html |access-date=22 September 2008 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080907182630/http://www.informatics.org/museum/tsilbio.html |archive-date=7 September 2008 }}</ref> The Soviet Union obtained naming rights by operating [[Luna 3]], the first space device to successfully transmit images of the side of the Moon not seen from Earth.<ref>[http://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/planetary/lunar/lunarussr.html Soviet Missions to the Moon]. Nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov. Retrieved 4 May 2012.</ref>
* The Tsiolkovsky Memorial Apartment. A museum created in [[Borovsk]] where he lived and had started his career as a teacher.<ref name=MuséeBorovsk>{{cite web|title=The Tsiolkovsky Memorial Apartment|url=https://gmik.ru/otdely/muzey-kvartira-k-e-tsiolkovskogo/|language=ru|access-date=17 Dec 2022|publication-date=}}.</ref>
* There is a statue of Konstantin Tsiolkovsky directly outside the [[Sir Thomas Brisbane Planetarium]] in [[Brisbane]], Queensland, Australia.
* There is a [[Google Doodle]] honoring the famous pioneer.<ref>{{cite web|title=Konstantin Tsiolkovsky's 155th birthday|url=https://doodles.google/doodle/konstantin-tsiolkovskys-155th-birthday/|website=Google Doodles|access-date=15 January 2017}}</ref>
* There is a Tsiolkovsky exhibit on display at the [[Museum of Jurassic Technology]] in Los Angeles, California.
*There is a 1 ruble 1987 coin commemorating the 130th anniversary of Konstantin Tsiolkovsky's birth.<ref>{{Cite book|title=2010 Standard Catalog of World Coins 1901-2000|publisher=Krause Publications|year=2009|isbn=978-0-89689-814-1|editor-last=Cuhaj|editor-first=George|edition=37|location=United States|pages=1758}}</ref>

=== Awards and decorations dedicated to Tsiolkovsky ===
*The USSR Academy of Sciences issued the golden table-top Tsiolkovsky Medal "For outstanding work in the field of interplanetary communications". It  was awarded to [[Sergey Korolev]], V.P. Glushko, N.A. Pilyugin, M.V. Keldysh, K.D. Bushuev, [[Yuri Gagarin]], [[German Titov]], A.G. Nikolaev and many other cosmonauts.<ref>[https://id123-projekt.narod.ru/medal.htm Медаль им.Циолковского К.Э.]</ref>
*The USSR Cosmonautics Federation issued [[:File:Aleksandr Leonidovich Zaitsev Медаль Циолковского.jpg|its own Tsiolkovsky Medal]]
*The Russian [[Federal Space Agency]] («Федеральное космическое агентство»)  instituted the {{ill|Tsiolkovsky badge|ru|Знак Циолковского}}
*After the Federal Space Agency  was reformed into the [[Roscosmos]] State Corporation for Space Activities, it replaced the Tsiolkovsky badge with the {{ill|K.E.Tsiolkovsky badge|ru|Знак К. Э. Циолковского (Роскосмос)}}