Croatia in perception of common people is Dubrovnik. Find this beautiful old city on map and follow the east coastline of the Adriatic sea to the northwest. In the utmost top corner, almost deeply sneaked in Middle Europe, is the Istria peninsula. On the lowest tip of the peninsula triangle is Pula (some, like Italians f.e. write the name of the city as Pola). Somehow I suppose that this middle-Europe city on the seashore is not known worldwide. But perhaps I might be wrong. This is a shame. More on city at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pula It has the second largest preserved roman amphiteatre in the world bult by Caesar Vespasianus (smaller then Colliseum in Rome, but oviously bigger then that in Verona). The city has a numerous layers in history, but the space people should remember it by only one: it was bornplace of Herman Potočnik, better known as Noordung (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herman_Potocnik), inventor od the rotating space station in his engineering book dating from year 1928. His visionary construction in the shape of rotating torus was not just a concept, but accompanied with almost all necessary math and sustainable system of life support, inspired -- better said mesmerized -- such great space people like Wernher von Braun, Arthur C. Clarke and director Stanley Kubrick. In the basement of their City library is the neat conference room where leaderships of the Team Synergy Moon and AU Vidulini (earlier in blog mentioned astronomic society) presented to the all relevant press people in Croatia's general media three great news: • AU Vidulini becomes a collective member of a Team Synergy Moon • Ing. Željko Mogoroš is going to build lunar rover based on his autonomous solar prototype rover, "made in two years just for fun and to feed kid's curiosity", that has made longest run for 12 kilometers, from Rovinj to Rovinjsko Selo. His skills in mechanic engineering and electronics will be, of course, supported in our synergical way by other team members an supporters with advanced materials and knowledge • For the first time we revealed detailed plans and construction of our lunar lander built by LAJP group in Ukraine's Dniepropetrovs'k. At the end there was a "one more thing" to announce: that a day earlier Synergy Moon's team leader Kevin Myrick has passed the "leader's relay baton" to Miroslav Ambruš-Kiš, the actual presenter. Due the profile of press people it was necessary to sketch the whole GLXP concept, to announce that deadline for the other teams in compettition in running out, and that in next two years all the world will be watching the different Moon race then it was breathlessly watched four decades ago. (Apparently, your reporter watched "small and big step" on vacation in Pula, and the memories are still vivid). The big, yet unknown city (for Croatian proportions), the great people from the small continental villages in the center of the magic peninsula that make great achievement "just for fun of their kids" - one shouldn't ask more. Or should? We were asked do we have an intention to win the GLXP? Surely we do! :-) And they were very proud of us. We still have to earn that, but this is a great credit! The LAJP Team The Laboratory of Advanced Jet Propulsion (LAJP), founded in August of 2007, is running integrated projects focusing on research and development of rocket-space-technologies in Ukraine. The LAJP is located in Dnipropetrovs’k. This city is placed in the eastern part of Ukraine, 540 km from the capital Kyiv, and is known as a rocket capital of Ukraine (There are well-known Yuzhnoye SDO, Yuzhny MachineBuilding Enterprise, Pavlograd Chemical Plant, UkrKosmos, etc.). The huge photo gallery can be browsed at http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=302409&l=fcf759403d&id=89195106328