Center Noordung . Photo : KSEVT and Tomaž Gregorič .
SPACE ARCHITECTURE ON PLANET EARTH
The Herman Potočnik Noordung Center of Space Technologies ( Cultural Centre of European Space Technologies until 2017 ) is located in a small town Vitanje in northeastern Slovenia where his mother ' s family hails from . Its architecture is based on the design of the circular living unit , a constituent of the geostationary space station as described in his book .
Literature
Kobal , Edvard : Herman Potočnik Noordung : ob 80-letnici nastanka knjige Das Problem der Befahrung des Weltraums Der Raketen - Motor ( Problem vožnje po vesolju ). Ljubljana : Ustanova Slovenska znanstvena fundacija , 2008 .
Premzl , Primož , Sitar , Sandi , Potočnik , Herman , Kokoschinegg , Gustav : Herman Potočnik Noordung : življenjepis v besedi in sliki . Maribor . ( prevodi iz nemščine Metka Smodiš ; uredil Primož Premzl ) : Umetniški kabinet Primož Premzl , 2013 .
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