Heinz Hermann Koelle

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Heinz Hermann Koelle (* 22. July 1925 in Gdansk ; † 20th February 2011 in Berlin ) was a German - American rocket engineer and aviation and space scientists .

Life

After the war he studied mechanical engineering at the University of Stuttgart and graduated in 1954 as a graduate engineer. In 1963 he received his doctorate from the Technical University of Berlin . He was the organizer of the 3rd International Astronautical Congress in Stuttgart in 1952.

From 1955 to 1960 he headed the US Army Ballistic Missile Agency in Huntsville , Alabama . In this capacity he was a member of the launch team for the first US satellite Explorer 1 in 1958. In 1960 he became director of NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center . There he was responsible for the preliminary design of the Saturn launcher and a member of the Apollo program . In 1965 he became head of the Institute for Space Technology at the Technical University of Berlin , where he worked until 1991. From 1985 he was co-chair of the Moon-Mars Committee of the International Academy of Astronautics . In 2007 Koelle received the Space Pioneer Award of the American "National Space Society".

Koelle died on February 20, 2011 in Berlin.

Works

  • Handbook of Astronautical Engineering , McGraw-Hill, New York, 1961.
  • Becoming and working as a German-American space professor , Science & Technology, 1994.
  • Lunar Bases: Strategies, Concepts, Prospects and Plans , Shaker Verlag GmbH, Germany, Edition 1, 2003.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ NSS Space Pioneer Awards. National Space Society, September 8, 2010, accessed on July 6, 2011 (English): "2007 - Heinz Hermann Koelle [Special Merit]"
  2. Gerhard Kowalski: Rocket technician Heinz Hermann Koelle has died. February 26, 2011, accessed July 6, 2011 .

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