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CONRAD
HASS
(1509-1579) |
armorer
and pirotechnician, made the first description of a three steps
rocket fited with stabilizing Delta wings. We drew the plan of a
rocket that could carry a " little house" on its top. It is known
as the precursor of nowadays rockets |
| TRAIAN
VUIA |
He
made the first "flight" with a plane heavier as the air in Paris.
The performance disputed with the Americans |
| AUREL
VLAICU |
The
father of the modern planes |
| HENRY
COANDA |
built
and flight the first jet plane; and not only... He lived in England
and come back to die in Romania |
HERMANN
OBERTH
(1894-1898) |
End
his studies with the writing "The rocket to the interplanets spaces"
who stands as one of the main basic work that enable the way of
the human been to the moon |
DUMITRU DORIN PRUNARIU |
A
Romanian cosmonaut: , born on September 27, 1952 in Brasov, Romania,
graduated from the Physics and Mathematics high school in Brasov
in 1971 and in 1976 from the Polytechnic University in Bucharest
obtaining a degree in Aerospace Engineering. D. Prunariu worked
as a Diplomatic Engineer at "IAR - Brasov", an aircraft industry
facility, prior to enrolling in the Romanian Air Force Officers
Training School in 1977. He was selected for spaceflight training
in 1978 as a part of the Intercosmos Program. Obtaining the maximum
marks during three years of preparation he was selected for a joint
space flight with Cosmonaut Leonid Popov. In May 1981 they completed
an eight-day space mission on board Soyuz-40 and the Saliut-6 space
laboratory where they completed scientific experiments in the fields
of astrophysics, space radiation, space technologies, space medicine
and biology. Following his space flight D. Prunariu worked as chief
inspector for airspace activities in the Romanian Air Force and
as an instructor at the Polytechnic University in the Aerospace
Engineering Department where he taught the theory of space flight.
In January 1990 he was appointed as Secretary of State to the Ministry
of Transportation and chief of the Romanian Civil Aviation Department.
In 1991 he graduated from the International Aviation Management
Training Institute (IAMTI/IIFGA) located in Montreal, Canada. In
1992 D. Prunariu was appointed as a board member of the Romanian
Space Agency and in 1998 appointed to serve as President - General
Director. Since 1995 he also served as Vice-President of the International
Institute for Risk, Security and Communication Management (EURISC).
Additionally, D. Prunariu is a corresponding member of the International
Astronautical Academy (1992) and a member of the National COSPAR
Committee (1994). In 1984 he was awarded the "Hermann Oberth Gold
Medal" by the German Rocket Society "Hermann Oberth - Wernher von
Braun". In 1985 joined the Association of Space Explorers (ASE),
currently with a membership of 270 astronauts from 27 countries.
Since 1993 he has been the permanent representative of the Association
of Space Explorers at the UN Committee on the Peaceful Uses of Outer
Space (COPUOS) sessions. D. Prunariu is currently a member of the
Executive Committee of ASE and since 1996 was elected chairman of
the Association's committee for policy and international affairs.
Since 1992 he is representing the Government of Romania to the UN
COPUOS sessions. D. Prunariu is an author and co-author of several
books regarding space technology and space flight and presented,
published numerous scientific papers. His PhD thesis produced new
developments in the field of space flight dynamics. D. Prunariu
is fluent in English, Russian and French. Dumitru Dorin Prunariu
is married and has two sons. |
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