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	Herman Potočnik - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Herman Potočnik (pseudonym Hermann Noordung) (December 12, 1892 - August 27, 1929) was a Slovene rocket engineer and pioneer of cosmonautics (astronautics).
		His father Jožef was born in 1841 in Razbor near Slovenj Gradec and at the time of Herman's birth he served as a doctor and high navy officer in the Austro-Hungarian navy harbour of Pola.
		Herman had two brothers Adolf and Gustav (who were both navy officers), and a sister Franci.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Herman_Potocnik (860 words)

	Istria on the Internet - Prominent Istrians - Herman Potocnik
		Herman Potocnik's sole book, Das Problem der Befahrung des Weltraums - der Raketenmotor (The Problem of Space Travel - The Rocket Motor), was published in 1928 in Berlin, Germany under a pen name, Hermann Noordung.
		In his book, Potocnik spread a plan for a breakthrough into space and for a residence of mankind in it, conceiving a space station which consisted of up to three modules: the "Wohnrad" (Inhabitable or Habitat Wheel), the power station and the observatory.
		Potocnik died at the age of 36 in Vienna, Austria on August 27, 1929 and was buried there.
	www.istrianet.org /istria/illustri/potocnik (1023 words)

	Preface
		Potocnik's gratitude to Oberth and the enthusiasts around him in Germany led the still young but ailing engineer to assume the pen name of Noordung (referring to the German word for north, Nord) in honor of the fellow space enthusiasts to his north.
		Potocnik's book dealt, as its title suggests, with a broad range of topics relating to space travel, although the rocket motor that forms the book's subtitle was not especially prominent among them.
		These sources on Potocnik's life agree in the essentials but disagree in some particulars, even to the spelling of his first name, which appears as Herman (with one n) on the title page of the Slovenian edition of his book, first published in his native language in 1986.
	www.hq.nasa.gov /office/pao/History/SP-4026/preface.html (4573 words)

	Herman Potocnik - Noordung (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		Potocnik's methodic throroughness is losing a race against his illness.
		These distances and even the approximate point in the space was, with an enviable precision, determined by a captain of the Austrian army, Herman Potocnik a half-century ago.
		Potocnik was a man with an extraordinary technological imagination and an astounding philosophy of existence.
	www.petrol.si /letno-porocilo/eng/noordung (594 words)

	American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics - History - Austria (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		Herman Potocnik, educated at various military schools in the Austrian-Hungarian Empire was appointed second lieutenant at the military college of MÃ¶dling near Vienna in 1913.
		Herman Potocnik also describes in his book how a satellite could be positioned such to be visible all day long from a very spot on Earth, namely about 36,000 kilometers above the equator.
		Herman Potocnik died of pneumonia caught during the war, shortly after the publication of his book in Vienna.
	www.aiaa.org /content.cfm?pageid=427 (2124 words)

	Herman Potocnik
		The Slovenian rocket engineer Herman Potocnik (1892-1929) envisaged correctly all the phases of the flight around the planet Earth already in the first half of the previous century in his book Das problem der Befahrung des Weltraums (The Problem of Space Travel), published in 1929 in Berlin.
		In 1963 the rocket scientist Wernher von Braun stated before the launching of the American telecommunication satellite Syncom" that the distance and the approximate point in space was determined with amazing precision as early as 1929 by a captain in the Austrian army, engineer Herman Potocnik.
		He imagined his only book - according to Wernher von Braun, a genuine text book for himself and the generation of space experts who were the first to bring man to the Moon - to be an engineering proof of the technical realization of movement in space.
	www.uvi.si /10years/contribution/potocnik.html (250 words)

	Pred 70 leti umrl H. P. Noordung (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		Herman Potocnik - Noordung, a Slovene pioneer of cosmonautics, died 70 years ago in Vienna.
		Potocnik graduated in mechanical engineering in 1922 in Vienna and dedicated the last years of his life entirely to the theory of cosmonautics.
		The first international symposium on Herman Potocnik will take place from 9 to 10 September in the Slovene city of Maribor, northeast.
	www2.arnes.si /~ljarkvmk5/zanimivosti/noord70eng.htm (134 words)

	Istria on the Internet - Prominent Istrians - Herman Potocnik
		In 1929, an Austro-Hungarian Slovene called Herman Potocnik published a book under pseudonym of "Noordung".
		Blueprints for the Habitat Wheel, a space station concept developed by Herman Potocnik in 1928.
		Potocnik's complete technical blueprint was the first to fully develop the notion of a space station, and many of his ideas, in modified forms, can be seen in modern technologies that will be used on the International Space Station (ISS).
	www.istrianet.org /istria/illustri/potocnik/book/habitat-wheel.htm (289 words)

	Philatelic Snippets 05 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		Herman Potocnik was born on 22 December 1892, and in space literature he is known as the inventor and discoverer of the synchron course where -today’s geostationary satellites are placed.
		To commemorate the 100th Anniversary of the birth of Herman Potocnik, the Austrian Postal Authority have issued a 10s stamp featuring the earth with a satellite in orbit around it.
		Potocnik, together with the English science fiction author Arthur C. Clarke, are considered fathers of today’s communications satellites, whose importance continues to increase, In 1965, the American space physician, Campbell found the most beautiful words for Herman Potocnik-Noordung: ‘…..he lived and died long before his time’,
	www.asss.utvinternet.com /philatelicsnippets/philatelicsnippets05.htm (1107 words)

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	Learn more about Herman Potocnik in the online encyclopedia. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		His German-like pseudonym Noordung is still a matter of mysteriousness, but some sugest that he used it to show the problems of chaos (derived from German word 'Ordnung', the order - since Slovenes in their colloquial language leave one 'n' from the original word to form something like 'ordunga').
		Father died in 1894 and his widow moved with four children to Maribor (at that time also officially named Marburg).
		One proposal for naming the ISS came in the late 1990s to be named after him, but the proposal was not yet accepted.
	onlineencyclopedia.org /h/he/herman_potocnik.html (1151 words)

	Noordung, Herman (1892-1929)
		Pseudonym of Herman Potocnik, a relatively obscure officer in the Austrian Imperial Army who became an engineer and, encouraged by Hermann Oberth, published in 1928 a seminal book Das Problem der Befahrung des Weltraums (The Problem of Space Travel: The Rocket Motor)
		Except for being two and a half times larger, Werhner von Braun's Collier's space station (see Collier's space program) closely resembled that of Potocnik and it is tempting to view von Braun as the latter's apt pupil.
		This, however, came not from Potocnik but rather from a suggestion of Fred Whipple (who had not read Potocnik's book), and, thus, represented an independent invention.
	www.daviddarling.info /encyclopedia/N/Noordung.html (473 words)

	CONK! Encyclopedia: Geostationary_orbit (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		Satellite locations may differ by longitude only (remember in Geostationary orbit latitude is zero).
		The idea of a geosynchronous satellite for communication purposes was first published in 1928 by Herman Potocnik.
		Geosynchronous and geostationary orbits were first popularised by science fiction author Arthur C. Clarke in 1945 as useful orbits for communications satellites.
	www.conk.com /search/encyclopedia.cgi?q=Geostationary_orbit (673 words)

	Herman Potocnik Encyclopedia Article, Definition, History, Biography (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
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	Slovene Contribution to World Civilisation
		Herman of Carinthia - mathematician, astronomer, philosopher, translator of the Koran and astrological writings, the first Slovene scientist to acquire a European reputation.
		His philosophical treatise, De essentiis (On Essences), written in 1143 was reprinted by the Germans in 1982.
		A Slovene contributed the first mathematically supported concept for a space station of satellite circling the earth at the same speed as a point below it on the Equator.
	www.uvi.gov.si /10years/contribution (810 words)

	HERMAN (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		Search the HERMAN Family Message Boards at Ancestry.com (if available).
		Search the HERMAN Family Resource Center at RootsWeb.com (if available).
		Find graves of people named HERMAN at Find-a-Grave.com (or add one that you know).
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	Noordung (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		Theatre director is Dragan Zivadinov who plans carry out the final act from the depth of the cosmo and will die in the process.
		Herman published the ground breaking book 'The Problem of Space Travel' inspiring a generation of space scientists.
		The theatre group's most famous production was Krst Pod Triglavom - Baptism performed by their original incarnation Scipion Nasice and significantly the rest of the NSK was involved, Laibach performed the music with Irwin designing the set.
	www.gla.ac.uk /~dc4w/laibach/noordung.html (148 words)

	Noordung
		Hermann Noordung (the pseudonym for Captain Potocnik of the Austrian Imperial Army) published Das Problem der Befahrung des Weltraums (The Problem of Space Flight), which included one of the first serious attempts to put on paper the design of a manned space station.
		Noordung's proposed design consisted of a doughnut-shaped structure for living quarters, a power generating station attached to one end of the central hub, and an astronomical observation station.
		Hermann Noordung (pseudonym for Capt. Potocnik of the Austrian Imperial Army) expanded the ideas of Hermann Oberth on space flight in a detailed description of an orbiting space observatory.
	www.astronautix.com /astros/noordung.htm (351 words)

	untitled (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		The University of Maribor will hold a memorial symposium about the Slovene-born pioneer of space travels Herman Potocnik Noordung this September in collaboration with the Jury A. Gagarin Centre and Slovenia's Ministry of Science and Technology.
		The symposium will be held on the occasion of the 70th anniversary of the publication of Potocnik's first book, The Problems of Space Travel.
		The event is intended to present Potocnik's work to the general public.
	www2.arnes.si /~ljarkvmk5/navtika/noordung1eng.htm (98 words)

	Wheels in the Sky - Wernher von Braun (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		Many of these details were devised by von Braun, but the concept of a spinning wheel-shaped space station had been thought of before.
		In the 1928 book The Problem of Space Travel, Herman Potocnik laid out detailed plans for a wheel-like space station that he called the "Habitat Wheel."
		In 1926, when he was 14 years old, von Braun found inspiration in German physicist Hermann Oberth's The Rocket Into Planetary Space.
	www.firstscience.com /SITE/ARTICLES/wheels.asp (1274 words)

	NATO Medical Conference
		Lecturers are nominated primarily on the basis of their scientific contribution to aerospace medicine (for more information about SAsMA and Herman Potocnik, please see www.sasma.szd.si).
		This year's Annual Herman Potocnik Memorial Lecture will be presented by Dr.
		Ola Eiken, Research Director of the Environmental Physiology Unit at FOI (Swedish Defence Research Agency) and head of the Aviation Medicine Laboratory at the Karolinska Institutet in Stockholm (Sweden).
	www.natoconference.gov.si /annual.htm (195 words)

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	P&R 2003, State Secretaries: Babic, Jazbec, Vrhunec
		The Annual "POTOCNIK and RUSJAN" Memorial Days 2003
		The Annual "POTOCNIK and RUSJAN" Memorial Meeting 2003
		Last web page as of AUG 11, 2003, PROGRAM
	www.sasma.szd.si /test4/arhiv/2003/p&r03/welcome.htm (46 words)

	InterComms - The International Communications Project
		However, the Soviets were able to put the first man in space (1961), the first woman (1963), launched the first (unmanned) Moon exploration mission, and arranged for the first Moon landing (1959) before finally the Americans took the lead.
		The Space Era was a consequence of the progress made in science and technology, as predicted by Arthur C. Clarke of Great Britain, Herman Potocnik (1892-1928), an Austro-Hungarian of Slovene origin, and Konstantin Tsiolkovsky (1857-1935), a Russian scientist of Polish origin.
		As with many inventions, the first satellites were products of military research.
	www.intercomms.net /AUG03/content/struzak2.php (6859 words)

	New Science: Home, Sweet Home (05/25/01)
		He tied fantasy to physics in his vision of how 1950's technology could be used to put a permanent space station into orbit around the Earth!
		But Von Braun wasn't the first to think of a wheel in space -- the idea goes back to a 1928 book The Problem of Space Travel where Herman Potocnik laid out details of a wheel-like space station called the "Habitat Wheel."
		So why does the current Space Station look more like a toy Lego structure or Erector Set?
	liftoff.msfc.nasa.gov /news/2001/News-homehome.asp (1561 words)

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