KSEVT press conference, 21.12. 2011

On a press conference in the meeting room of the National and University Library (NUK) in Ljubljana [location link], some fresh news on KSEVT and its proceedings have been disclosed to the general public. The conference had two major topics.

Firstly, KSEVT institute has established a term "Treasury of Modernity"; the name stands for a library of distinctive revolutionary works from the field of science and technology of spaceflight, also art and humanistics; all of them are in a way connected to the work of Herman Potočnik Noordung and all of them are being gathered for the future specialised KSEVT library. Some examples:

1. an original Hermann Oberth book Die Rakete zu den Planetenräumen (1923);
2. an original Max Valier book Der Vorstoss in der Weltenraum (1925);
3. an original Herman Potočnik Noordung book The Problem of Space Travel - The Rocket Motor (1928);
4. original issues (3) of the magazine Science Wonder Stories, in which all the vital parts of Potočnik's book were first published in English;
5. a reprinted Wernher von Braun PhD thesis (1934);
6. an original issue of the magazine Wireless World with the historically essential article on information satellites by Arthur C. Clarke (1945);
7. an original Willy Ley book Rockets, Missiles & Space Travel (1957) and many others.

Secondly, KSEVT as a building and home of all these ongoing activities, is in its last construction phase and the solemn opening is scheduled for May 2012.

Below, there are some photos of the press conference.