A travelling clown, a socialist revolutionary, an assassin, an edgelord. Today, we talked to Kelly from Canuck is a Slur about the strange life of one of the first men to theorize manned rockets and also blew up Tsar Alexander II, Emperor of Russia. Come back for Part 2, where we cover the assassination and how he factors into space history.
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Source:
- Nikolai Ivanovich Kibalchich: Terrorist Rocket Pioneer, Lee B Croft
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Part 2: Nikolai Kibalchich, the Rocket Pioneer Who Blew up the Tsar

This is a podcast about all the mistakes, failures, and explosions that made space exploration possible.