tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5168353211979506184.post2426327307365849786..comments2023-11-02T07:33:16.948-04:00Comments on Continuing Counter Reformation: April 17, 2012Douglas Andrew Willingerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06412711658495398785noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5168353211979506184.post-59361490550817116412012-12-21T11:28:13.394-05:002012-12-21T11:28:13.394-05:00The rotating space station ship was invented by He...The rotating space station ship was invented by Herman Potocnik "Noordnung", a Slovenian engineer, at the beginning of XX cent. A Nasa adviser for Kubrick saw it on the cover of a SF magazine and it entered in the movie. The work of Noordnung was among the fundamental text of the works of (Nazi) von Braun :<br /><br />http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herman_Poto%C4%8Dnik<br /><br />".....Herman Potočnik (pseudonym Hermann Noordung; December 22, 1892 – August 27, 1929) was an Austro-Hungarian rocket engineer and pioneer of cosmonautics (astronautics) of Slovene ethnicity. He is chiefly remembered for his work addressing the long-term human habitation of space.<br />............<br />Potočnik's book described geostationary satellites (first put forward by Konstantin Tsiolkovsky) and discussed communication between them and the ground using radio, but fell short of the idea of using satellites for mass broadcasting and as telecommunications relays (developed by Arthur C. Clarke in his Wireless World article of 1945). The wheel-shaped space station served as an inspiration for further development by Wernher von Braun (another former VfR member) in 1952. Von Braun saw orbiting space stations as a stepping stone to travel to other planets. In 1968, Stanley Kubrick's ground-breaking film, 2001: A Space Odyssey, depicted such a role for "Space Station V"........."avleshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02962973703796060387noreply@blogger.com