A lot of ideas, a lot of measuring and above all teamwork was needed for the Hunveyor to be born. The experimental space probe model offers a great outlook to the world and immediately captures the students. We were talking to the man behind the Hunveyor dream, Szaniszló Bérczi.

It’s great to feel at home in the universe. Szaniszló Bérczi said this towards the end of our chat, but it is a great starting point to understand the motivation that actually gave birth to the first Hunveyor. It is not easy to sum up the history of the Hunveyors spreading over 15 years now, and indeed, we were jumping from topic to topic, touching upon the commitment of teachers, the secrets of Chinese characters to the false but comfortable goals suggested by the television. In the meantime however, a world view surfaced, that looked to the universe like a place where it’s good to be at home and to look around. With space probes for example.

The Hunveyor offers a great outlook to the world and it has the advantage of immediately capturing the students. The experimental space probe model was created in 1997 at the ELTE Department of Technics under the guidance of Szaniszló Bérczi. Its history, however, goes back much longer, to the sixties. This is when the work began on the Surveyor-program at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (founded by Tódor Kármán) in Pasadena, California. The aim was the Moon and the preparation of the Apollo-program. Five out of seven Surveyors completed successfully the mission and soft landed on the Moon between 1966 to 1968.

Read our Team Member Éva Vándor's complete interview with Szaniszló Bérczi here.

By the way, Team Puli Space is proud to build the fifteenth Hunveyor on its way to the Moon!

Tibor Pacher (left) and Szaniszló Bérczi (right) signing the cooperation agreement. Photo: Tamás Péter Varga