Teófilo Tabanera

Teófilo Tabanera Melchor (* 1909 in Mendoza, † 1981 ) was an Argentine aviation and aerospace official.

Life

1930 Tabanera published an article in a magazine in Mendoza, entitled La Luna nos esta esperando ( The moon awaits us ). Then he published Science Fiction in technical journals.

The first known Argentine group that dealt with space travel, were chemistry students at the University of Buenos Aires to Ennio Matarazzo. This letter had contact with the Spaceflight Club by John Winkler.

Tabanera received his diploma in 1936 at the Universidad Nacional de La Plata and made ​​trips to the USA and Europe. In 1945, he was the first Argentine member of the British Interplanetary Society and the American Astronautical Society.

Tabanera was director at Yacimientos Petroliferos Fiscales ( YPF ) and the state-owned gas company. In this capacity, he participated in professional conferences abroad, such as in 1947 at the World Congress for Energy in The Hague.

1947 were 392 foreign experts in the founded in 1927 aircraft company Fábrica Militar de Aviones employed in Córdoba, including Émile Dewoitine, founder of the Société Industrielle Pour l' Aéronautique, he traveled in May 1946, Spain aboard the Cabo de Buena Esperanza with Antonio Caggiano after Argentina. 1947 emigrated Kurt Tank as Prof. Dr. Pedro Matthies over Denmark and Sweden to Cordoba from. 1948 failed, the move by Erich Bachem to Argentina.

In 1949, a group of international scientists, led by Tabanera, the Sociedad Argentina Interplanetaria (SAI ). 1949 in the reign of Juan Perón Tabanera was Minister of Economy, Public Works and Irrigation in Mendoza. 1950 visited Tabanera the first international space conference at the Sorbonne, in the course of the International Astronautical Federation ( FAI) was founded, whose vice president was Tabanera for the next thirty years. Tabaneras most famous work is the paperback edition, published in 1951, entitled ¿ Qué es la Astronáutica? (What is space? ) Tabanera was a founding member of the International Academy of Astronautics. 1952 visited Tabanera the Congress of the International Astronautical Federation in Stuttgart, where he met Irene singer - Bredt, Hermann Oberth, Eugen Sänger, William Durand and Arthur C. Clarke.

The Comisión Nacional de Actividades Espaciales ( CONAE ), whose first president was Tabanera, developed in collaboration with the Instituto de Investigaciones military Aeronáuticas y Espaciales in Córdoba the first Argentine launchers. The first successful missile launches were made in the late 1960s, a preliminary highlight was the rocket Castor in 1975 with 500 km altitude.

1979 Tabanera wrote his last book Argentina ante el reto del tercer milenio (Argentina faced with the challenge of the third millennium ).

Honors

After Teófilo Tabanera the Argentine Space Center Falda del Cañete »Centro Espacial Teófilo Tabanera ", about 15 kilometers southwest of Córdoba is named.

Swell

• Space functionary
• Argentine space
• Argentine
• Born in 1909
• Died in 1981
• Man