How often happens that someone’s visions become an object of mockery. This person falls into doubt and disappointment with a lack of approval. Meanwhile, the distant future becomes on his side.

He was a man who wanted to revive the imagination. He believed that it was possible. He believed that a man could fly into space. Not a plane, not a balloon but a spaceship. You just need to build it and guide it accordingly. He devoted his life to this.

They call him the father of cosmonautics, precursor and the creator of the field of science currently known as the space engineering, which became one of the most advanced fields of technology. Ary Szternfeld was born in a Polish-Jewish family residing in Sieradz city (1905). When Ary was 10 years old and left the family, Sieradz resort to the fights of the First World War. The family sheled in Lodz city where Ary began to attend gymnasium. In 1923 he became a student at the Jagielonian University in Krakow city. The university did not meet his expectations to educate him on astronomer. There was no teaching direction in which Ary wanted to develop. It was not about knowledge about astrophysical phenomena, but like these phenomena to assemble and use in everyday life. Already then he gied himself without the rest of theories how to get out of the atmosphere of the Earth.

A lonely in his vision goes to France to the University of Nancy. There were also left-wing views of Arego and an attempt to look for a political acceptance. After obtaining a diploma, the Mechanic Engineer (1927) was looking for a job in Poland but no effect. Disappointed returned to France working in various cluster offices on improving industrial machines. In Paris, he wanted to get a academic title of doctorate in the field of astronautics, but nobody novelty was seriously treated. Ary abandoned doctoral studies for independent research on a new field he called the cosmonautics. The name comes from the Polish word “Kosmos” and in contrast to the concept of astronomy which deals with the science of the stars, the cosmona company is a field of traveler’s technology outside the atmosphere of the Earth to the stars. The West World did not accept this Teminology not excluded that for political reasons.

In 1930, our hero met Correspondence Konstantin Ciolkowski residing in Russia, (Father Edward Ciolkowski was a Pole). Ciolkowski and actually his work on racquet engines very inspired by Aego, who organized lectures in Paris discussing the theories of the Soviet scientist.Using the left-wing connexion, Ary Szternfeld in 1932 will go to the USSR where he presented his idea to construct a robot-android who could get a man with heavily work in space. But then no one understood him in the USSR. The attitude of the economy of the Soviet Union was a slave job of people who were under abundance. So he returned to Poland and in Lodz city began working on his work “The Introduction to Cosmonautics”. The work was initially completed at the end of 1933. It contained, among other things, discussions of the conditions for the impact of weightlessness on the human body and the use of gravity to accelerate the flight. In his work he made topics that today spend a dream with the eyes of the present engineers planning to send people to Mars. This Ary Szternfeld calculated an angle of an object to orbit and placing it in such a distance to obtain a constant location and speed circulating as a satellite of the Earth. He developed 66 values of satellite positions and the principles of their navigation. It also introduced new concepts for technology as spaceship and rocket gradual drive. The Polish Astronomical Society does not understand the application theory of Ary Szternfeld treated a scientist with a distance. It was similar in France. Works of Ary nobody wanted to publish a print for fear of compromising. This great man died in the restored truth and that made him a heretic.

The scientific works of Ary Szternfeld became interested in the USSR, because Ary was at the same time a communist activist as ewnicly correct received employment in the scientific research institute of jet drive, and it was 1936, four years before the accession of the USSR to war with Poland. The year later Ary has been released in Russia of its scientific work (1937 four years after writing), but immediately after that Stalinist, Ideal cleans have led to the closure of the Institute. Ary remained without a job, deal with the construction of machines. At that time, his parents are murdered in Poland in the extermination of Jews organized by the Germans. If Ary stayed in Poland, he would share their fate.

Only 9 years after the end of the Second World War when the USSR joined the technological race with the world and the space flight program, Ary gained popularity as the theoretician. In 1957, the Russians put the artificial satellite for the first time on the orbit of the Earth, and the calculations coincided with those that Ary had made twenty years earlier in Poland, but no one believed that it was possible. Ary first calculated that a man’s flight on the mathematically moon is possible. The Americans were over 30 years later.

Ary Szternfeld visited Poland many times but remained permanently in Moscow. There he devoted himself to writing scientific books. He died in 1980 where he was buried with honors on the Moscow cemetery.

The largest paradox of the history of this man was the recognition of him as outstanding in many countries, but not in Poland. His scientific achievements He picked up Mikolaj Copernicus but Poles rejected him. The reason for was communist views, i.e. striving to respect human dignity and settling Ary in Russia because it was only appreciated. Life of Ary It’s science and not citizenship. Poles considered it to be insulted and preferred to forget about such a man. For many years, there were no words about him in the textbooks of Polish history and physics.

It’s amazing how the political censorship has a political censorship. In Poland, you can now meet many different monuments of abstract art, animals, Catholic priests, actors and little known people but we will not meet any monument devoted to Ary Szternfeld, a man who predicted and calculated the scientific future from which each of us uses watching TV or using navigation. Ary Szternfeld is unwanted by the Poles of these luxuries. Poles do not want to be proud of the origin of Ary Szternfeld and draw inspiration from this personality. In the center of Lodz, where it was crucial for learning a work of an outstanding man, unlike Copernicus Torun, residents of Lodz in tribute to his city as his showcase funded a costly monument to the Japanese goat from a fairy tale. Is this a mature social attitude suggesting that gratitude and memory of them is more important than outstanding people of science? Is this to be an mature and a responsible society? (Brux)

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