The Society for Studies of Interplanetary Travel was founded in Moscow in May 1924. It was a spin off of a military science society at the Zhukovsky Airforce Academy, and was chaired by Grigory Kramarov

Grigory Kramarov

Grigory Moiseevich Kramarov was a Russian revolutionary and Bolshevik. He was an early promoter of the idea of space flight in the Soviet Union, actively advancing the concept from the 1920s.-Biography:...

. Its 200 charter members included important Soviet space-exploration and rocketry experts such as Konstantin Tsiolkovsky

Konstantin Tsiolkovsky

Konstantin Eduardovich Tsiolkovsky was an Imperial Russian and Soviet rocket scientist and pioneer of the astronautic theory. Along with his followers the German Hermann Oberth and the American Robert H. Goddard, he is considered to be one of the founding fathers of rocketry and astronautics...

, Fridrikh Tsander, and Vladimir Vetchinkin

Vladimir Vetchinkin

Vladimir Petrovich Vetchinkin was a Soviet scientist in the field of aerodynamics, aeronautics, and wind energy, Doctor of Technical Sciences , Honored Science Worker of the RSFSR ....

. The society allowed engineers and educators to meet and discuss space travel

Space travel

Space travel can refer to:*Spaceflight, the use of space technology to fly a spacecraft into and through outer space, which may include:*Spacefaring, capability of and activity in the art of spaceborn travel.*Human spaceflight...

, and it organized public educational events.

OIMS hosted a famous public debate on October 4, 1924 to discuss the idea of Robert Goddard to launch a rocket to the Moon.

The society existed for only about one year.