Ernst Geissler

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Ernst Dietrich Geissler (born August 3, 1915 in Chemnitz , German Empire , † June 3, 1989 in Huntsville , Alabama ) was a German-American engineer and space pioneer .

Life

Ernst Geissler was born on August 3, 1915 in Chemnitz in what was then the Kingdom of Saxony . He studied at the Technical University of Dresden and graduated in 1939 with a diploma.

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In 1940 Geissler team members was rocket development of Wernher von Braun in Peenemünde Army Research Center . There he was the head of a mathematicians group responsible for calculating trajectories and flight paths.

After the Second World War , Geissler came to the USA in November 1945 as part of Operation Paperclip . In 1960 he became director of the aeroballistic division at NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center (MSFC) , a position he still held in early 1969, the year the Apollo 11 mission landed on the moon . One of the employees reporting to him at MSFC was Jesco von Puttkamer .

Ernst Geissler received the NASA Certificate of Appreciation in 1973 and was also awarded the NASA Distinguished Service Medal . The American Astronautical Society named him a Fellow for his great contributions to space travel .

He died on June 3, 1989 in Huntsville, Alabama.

Honors

  • NASA Certificate of Appreciation (1973)
  • NASA Distinguished Service Medal (1973)
  • Fellow of the American Astronautical Society

Publications

  • Investigations into orbit shapes, areas of action and stability problems for pursuit bodies. 1950

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ University of Alabama: Transplanted Rocket Pioneers. (PDF) p. 45 , accessed on October 22, 2015 (English).
  2. ↑ Peter Wegener : The Peenemunde Wind Tunnels: A Memoir. Yale University Press , 1996.
  3. ↑ Jesco von Puttkamer: The second day of the new world - space travel on the way into the 3rd millennium. Umschau Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 1985, ISBN 3-524-69054-8 , p. 13.
  4. ↑ List of Fellows of the American Astronautical Society on astronautical.org, accessed November 28, 2015
personal data
SURNAME Geissler, Ernst
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Geissler, Ernst Dietrich (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German-American engineer and space pioneer
DATE OF BIRTH August 3, 1915
PLACE OF BIRTH Chemnitz , German Empire
DATE OF DEATH June 3, 1989
Place of death Huntsville , Alabama