Ismail Akbay

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Ismail Akbay (born October 17, 1930 in Tirilye , Turkey , † July 26, 2003 in Huntsville , USA ) was a Turkish engineer and the first Turk to work for NASA .

Life

Ismail Akbay was born in Tirilye near Bursa in 1930 . After graduating from Haydarpaşa Lisesi, he went to the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga , USA in 1953 to study physics. He completed his studies in technical physics in 1956 as a graduate physicist.

Akbay was selected by Wernher von Braun to become Chief Engineer for F1 Engine Integration on the Apollo Saturn V-S1C Rocket. Akbay also advanced the Saturn 1B / H-1 engine integration for the Apollo-Soyuz rendezvous mission. Ismail Akbay worked in leadership management at NASA from 1963 to 1975. During this time he led various projects at NASA as a project manager such as B. Apollo , Skylab and Apollo-Soyuz .

After his career at NASA, Akbay worked on technology transfer from space technology to the US private sector and the commercialization of other federally funded technologies.

At a technology transfer meeting in 1996, Ismail Akbay Kaya Tuncer presented his vision of setting up a space camp in the Aegean free trade area in Turkey. In June 2000, Ismail Akbay attended the opening ceremony of Space Camp Turkey.

His 31-year career at NASA earned him recognition as one of the most important researchers in aerospace engineering in the United States. After the moon landing in 1969, Turkish media reported Akbay as "the Turk who helped with the moon landing".

In 2003, Ismail Akbay died at the age of 72 in a fire at his home in Huntsville. He managed to save his wife in time, but went back inside to save his dog and died of smoke inhalation.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Former NASA engineer killed in fire , tuscaloosanews.com, July 30, 2003, accessed May 5, 2017
personal data
SURNAME Akbay, Ismail
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Turkish engineer
DATE OF BIRTH 17th October 1930
PLACE OF BIRTH Tirilye , Turkey
DATE OF DEATH July 26, 2003
Place of death Huntsville , USA