Herman Potocnik

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Watch the latest DoodleShow: http://doodleshow.org/latest • Google celebrates the Austro-Hungarians rocket engineer • Herman Potočnik on his 120th birthday. • Potočnik was an pioneer of cosmonautics of Slovene. • He is chiefly remembered for his work • addressing the long-term human habitation of space. • After his school and and study at Austrian • military schools, he served in World War I • and was promoted as First Lieutnant. • Later he was awarded a doctorate in engineering. • He specialised in rocketry, and from 1925 he devoted • himself entirely to the problems of a rocket science • and space technology. • Potočnik died of pneumonia at the age of 36 • in great poverty in Vienna, Austria, and was buried there. • An obituary notice about his death was printed • in one Maribor daily newspaper, mentioning his ranks • (engineers and captain), his illness, • but nothing about his work about space.

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