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Many Slovenes and
American Slovenes researchers and scientists are involved in different NASA programs
NASA
Petrač, Duąan (1932)
Physicist from Kropa. Internationally acknowledged top expert in space technology
(cryogenics), lecturer at UCLA, adviser at Universities of West Berlin and Stanford,
researcher at NASA, and honorary inhabitant of the city of Los Angeles.
Mavretič, Anton (1936)
Electrotechnician from Črnuče, near Ljubljana. Top expert in electrotechnology and in
measuring solar wind, works for MIT, is a full-time professor at Boston University, and
works for NASA. His name is among 30 scientists who appear on the plates attached to the
satellites Voyager 1 and 2.
Repar, Janez (John) (1922)
The son of Slovene emigrants - his mother came from ©marje na Dolenjskem and his
father from Ig near Ljubljana - mathematician and chemist, John (Janez) Repar was born on
29th November, 1922, in Barberton, Ohio. Working for NASA, he invented ethylene propylene
rubber, a material which makes possible the journey of spacecraft to Venus, Mars, and
Mercury. He spent a lot of his time on rocket fuel compatibility. Janez Repar works as
part of an elite international team of experts. In the specialized NASA Institute of
Technology, which is the most important NASA department for space travel, Poles, Russians,
Slovenes, and Hungarians as well as Chinese, Greeks work shoulder to shoulder. |