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Goddard Space Flight Center Engineering Colloquium
Date: Monday, October 5, 1998
Situated in the heart of Middle-Europe, Austria has always been a creative country with many contributors in music and the natural sciences, including space flight visionaries. The UN Chairmen for International Space Activities have typically been Austrian. A small country trying to be neutral during the Space Race, Austrian scientists worked with both American and Russian researchers. This talk will go over some of the historical and future activities related to Space in Austria that Americans do not hear about but are reactive and contributory to what America has accomplished and will accomplish in Space.
Herbert Pichler is a Doctor of Medicine with degrees from the University of Innsbruck (Austria - 1945) and the University of Zurich (Switzerland - 1948). He is the CEO of SIGMAPHARM of Vienna, which he founded in 1949. In 1974 he created the Austrian Institute of Aerospace Medicine and Space Biology. In 1996 he founded the International Institute for Quantum Medicine in Vienna. Since 1963 he has worked with NASA, especially with the MSFC, and in 1965 organized NASA's Space-Mobile Exhibition in Austria. In 1966 he established the Austrian Space Circle and was the Austrian UN delegate to the 1968 UN Space Conference in Vienna. He is the official Space commentator on Austrian TV, and has authored two books on Space, Die Mondiandung (Landing on the Moon) (1969), preface by Werner von Braun, and Das schwerelose Universum (The Weightless Universe) (1995).
Colloquium Committee Sponsor: Jan Kalshoven
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