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Drotkowski OP t1_jaemsga wrote

Reply to comment by Interesting-Ad7020 in Starting again with space by Drotkowski

Thank you very much, I heard about Mr. Hermaszewski. Unfortunately Poland doesn't really have space agency, but I will definitely check the books and podcasts. I can't believe how fascinating our Universe is.

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Bipogram t1_jaenctt wrote

No agency as such, but a great many skilled workers and companies.

One instrument I worked on in the 90s had a crucial element (four titanium wires as thin as hairs stretched across a gap of 50mm, and all that inside thin-walled titanium cans with walls no thicker than playing cards) that was made in Poland.

<TIL: the first head of Polsa, Prof Banaszkiewicz, is the lead scientist of this very device I'm describing! He's done well!>

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