Shanghai, China, EXPO 2010 - and Noordung

Lately, my free time gaps are getting scarce, so, for the next short notice, I also used info from the Vesolje.net page, with all due respect to Simon Zajc, author of the report.

As a part of the Slovenian pavillion program at the World EXPO 2010 in Shanghai, China, the Slovenian spaceflight pioneer Herman Potočnik Noordung was presented to a wider audience. His book, "The Problem of Space Travel - The Rocket Motor", was considered as one of the eight main stories by which Slovenia wants to represent itself at the exhibition.

On July 2, 2010, in the European pavillion at the EXPO 2010, there has been held a conference about connecting the European and the Chinese space program. The conference and with it The International Space Day was brought to an end with an artistic performance Cardinal Neuron :: Noordung, the performers being Dunja Zupančič, Mateja Rebolj, Miha Turšič, Marko Mlačnik, Dario Seraval and Dragan Živadinov. A united opinion of these artists is, quote, "to take care of a continuated europeisation of Potočnik's contribution to space science by the digital processing of the book The Problem of Space Travel." Oliver Rassat, the director of the European pavillion, was the man who invited the group to participate.