The Cultural Centre of European Space Technologies (KSEVT), inspired by his work, was built in Vitanje, Slovenia
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Herman Potočnik
Herman Potočnik was an Austrian officer, electrical engineer and astronautics theorist. He is regarded as a pioneer and visionary of modern space flight and is remembered mainly for his work concerning the long-term human habitation of space.
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science · Austrian military officer, electrical engineer and astronautics theorist (1892–1929) · military flight engineer · inventor · mechanical engineer · engineer · military officer · technician · also Herman Potočnik, Potočnik
Born 22 December 1892 · Died 27 August 1929 · Q84870
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2006· 1 entry
The Herman Potočnik Noordung Memorial Centre (HPNMC) was built in Vitanje, Slovenia
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1999· 2 entries
At Črni Vrh Observatory, is named after him
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A two-day international memorial symposium about his life and work was held at the University of Maribor, celebrating the 70th anniversary of the first printing of his famous book
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1986· 1 entry
(by the Slovenska matica), English in 1995 (by NASA) and Croatian in 2004 (by Marino Fonović, published by Labin Art Press)
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1955· 1 entry
And 1968, George Pal's and Byron Haskin's Conquest of Space (based on Wernher von Braun's published concepts: first, several articles in Collier's magazine 1952–1954, co-written with Willy Ley and Chesley Bonestell, and
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1929· 1 entry
Died 1929-08-27.
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1919· 1 entry
Was pensioned from the Austrian military with the rank of captain because of tuberculosis that he contracted during the war
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1915· 1 entry
Was promoted to the rank of First Lieutenant (Oberleutnant)
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1894· 1 entry
His mother relocated the family to Maribor
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1892· 1 entry
Born 1892-12-22.
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1866· 1 entry
Herman's father Jožef participated with the second Battle of Vis, where the Austrian Navy commanded by Wilhelm von Tegetthoff defeated the Royal Italian Navy
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1841· 1 entry
In Zgornji Razbor and at the time of Herman's birth he served as a doctor and a navy officer of the Austro-Hungarian Navy harbour of Pola
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