DID U.S. GET APOLLO TECHNOLOGY FROM EX YUGOSLAVIA?

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DID U.S. GET APOLLO TECHNOLOGY FROM EX YUGOSLAVIA?

Posted By: IZAKOVIC [Send E-Mail]
Date: Saturday, 14-Jan-2012 09:39:44

Until few years ago I had a neighbour from when our condominium was constructed in 1959, Mr. Viziak, a sales manger in pension of that what preceded my present company, SVJETLOST (LIGHT) which originated in 1945 from local SIEMENS outfit that was here before WWII. Mr. Viziak was immensely interested in space flight technology, which was most curious in local environment. When I was a kid his guest in nearby Novi Vinodolski during the summer holydays was Werner Von Braun. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wernher_von_Braun Mr Viziak died 3 years ago. Few months before his death he showed me a book he was preparing most of his late life. It was about Apollo program. Other of my (my father's neighbours) was Mr. Ruppe, ex engineer, now in pension, of the same company which now is named Elektroagregati KONCAR (Generating Sets KONCAR-regional authority last 60 years for such equipment), ex part of KONCAR ELECTRO INDUSTRIES during ex Yugioslavia, of which I was manager until 10 years ago (now I am only a Marketing Manager, which is a same thing, only now under Italian property which I am not fond of). Few weeks ago I have attended a funeral of one of our neighbours, and met Mr. Ruppe. While we were waiting he told me a story about Croatians-ex Austrians many of which worked in NASA's APOLLO program. One of them was Prof Harry Ruppe, who in '60 was deputy director of NASA Marshall's Future Projects Office. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_German_rocket_scientists_in_the_United_States He was his relative I met I was a little kid. About the same time Diane (French car of that time of Citroen make) broke in front of our house, with Kral May's http://en.wikipedia.org/?title=Karl_May characters Winnetou (actor Pierre Brice http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pierre_Brice) and Old Shatterhand (actor Lex Barker http://www.bing.com/images/search?q=Lex+Barker&qpvt=Lex+Barker&FORM=IGRE) in it, while going to the set few kilometres away. I remember that when Lex Barker, after a brief intimidation run after us 2 kids (I was about 8 years old), shot his Colt at me and my friend. I was not afraid, I was just vividly interested where the bullet has gone (it was a blank). Now there this movie states that U.S. got APOLLO technology from us. Considering that TESLA was born 100 km from where Iive, and all those celeb encouters, there could be something to it. Of course, I know what there is. IZAKOVIC, FRANKOPAN http://www.deepspace4.com John's Comment - I worked on the Apollo Project and I had a number of brilliant coworkers from Europe per the above posting. This was in Bethpage, NY with Grumman on the LEM.