Jesco von Puttkamer (space engineer)

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Jesco Hans Heinrich Max Freiherr von Puttkamer (born September 22, 1933 in Leipzig ; † December 27, 2012 in Alexandria , Virginia ) was a German-American aerospace engineer and author. Since 1962 he was in the service of the US aerospace authority NASA and was its longest serving employee.

Life

Puttkamer came from the Puttkamer noble family in the Pomerania (line: Nossin ; branch: Wollin - younger Nossin; branch: Jassen ). He spent the Second World War with his mother and siblings mainly in Switzerland , graduated from high school in Konstanz in 1952 and completed an engineering internship in various companies. He then studied mechanical engineering at the Technical University of Aachen . As a student, he wrote several science fiction novels and short stories.

In 1962 Puttkamer emigrated to the USA as a graduate engineer. At NASA in Huntsville , Alabama , he worked on Wernher von Braun's team on the Apollo program and calculated flight paths. His supervisor at the Marshall Space Flight Center was Ernst Geissler . After the end of the lunar program, he worked as an engineer and planner on Skylab , the space shuttle and other projects.

Since 1974 he has led a working group for the strategic planning of the permanent development of space at NASA headquarters in Washington. There he was in the Office of Space Operations (OSO) at the International Space Station ISS in 2007 and has been involved in the formulation of NASA's Moon / Mars long-term program since 2004 , which was initiated by the then President of the United States George W. Bush , but for cost reasons Barack Obama was deleted again.

From 1978 to 1980 he worked as a technical consultant for Star Trek - The Movie .

Puttkamer, Chertok and NASA historian Steven J. Dick, Moscow 2005

In 1996, the University of Saarbrücken awarded him an honorary doctorate in philosophy . Puttkamer had a professional engineering degree from the state of Alabama and was the recipient of numerous high awards from NASA, including the "Exceptional Service" order. From 1983 to 2000 he was an honorary professor at the FH Aachen . In the last week of November 2012, he gave lectures to students there as an honorary professor.

In Germany he became known as a promoter of manned space travel through appearances in the media and as an author of specialist books . As a member of the Advisory Board of the Space Education Institute Germany, he was committed to promoting young talent in his native Leipzig. Until recently he kept in close contact with space experts in Germany, especially at ESA and DLR .

Jesco von Puttkamer died at the age of 79 after a short illness on December 27, 2012 of heart failure. He left behind his wife Ursula, with whom he had been married since 1961.

bibliography

Jesco von Puttkamer 2009 guest on ZDF

Science fiction

  • The uncanny from another planet. 1957.
  • with Clark Darlton : Galaxy Ahoy! 1958.
  • with Clark Darlton: The Immortal Universe. 1959.
  • The sleeping god. 1960. Also as: The Journey of the Sleeping God .
  • as Ralph Anders with Bogislav von Puttkamer : World without people. 1960.
  • The time manuscript. 1960.
  • The sixth phase. 1961.
  • Electronic brains, wormholes and world models. 1985 (short stories from 1952 to 1959).

Non-fiction

  • Apollo 8 - departure into space. 1969.
  • Columbia, this is Adler. 1969.
  • Space stations - laboratories in space. 1971.
  • The first day of the new world - from the adventure of space travel to the future in space. 1981.
  • The second day of the new world - space travel on the way into the 3rd millennium. 1985.
  • Man in space - a necessity. 1987.
  • Return to the future - balance sheet of space travel according to Challenger. 1989, ISBN 3-524-69082-3 .
  • Millennium Project Mars. 1996.
  • Apollo 11: we see the earth. 1999, ISBN 3-7766-7056-8 .
  • From Apollo to the ISS. 2001.
  • Apollo 11 adventure: from the moon landing to the exploration of Mars. 2009.
  • Project Mars. 2012, ISBN 978-3-7766-2685-8 .

Translations

  • Donald A. Wollheim : The secret of the rings of Saturn. 1956 (Secret of Saturn's rings) .
  • James E. Gunn : Surrounded by Walls ... 1957 (This fortress World) .
  • Alfred Elton van Vogt : The expedition of the "Space Beagle" . 1957 (The Voyage of the Space Beagle) .
  • Poul Anderson : Power of the Spirit. 1958 (Brain Wave) .
  • Alfred Elton van Vogt: The shadows. 1958 (Universe Maker) .
  • Isaac Asimov : The naked sun . 1960 (The Naked Sun) .
  • Alfred Elton van Vogt: 200 million years later. 1965 (The book of Ptath) .

literature

Web links

Commons : Jesco von Puttkamer  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Space pioneer died of heart failure: Longest-serving NASA expert Jesco von Puttkamer is dead , Focus from December 28, 2012, accessed on December 28, 2012
  2. ^ Hans-Joachim von Puttkamer: Prof. Dr. phil. hc Dipl.-Ing. Jesco Hans Heinrich Max Frhr. v. Puttkamer ( Memento from May 24, 2014 in the Internet Archive )
  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. ↑ Dimensions issue 2/2011, FH Aachen magazine, page 15 (PDF)
  5. ^ Nasa expert von Puttkamer died , FAZ of December 28, 2012
  6. ↑ NASA SEI report 06-100 ( WMV ; 5.2 MB) video download
  7. ↑ Moscow2005 (WMV; 4.4 MB) Video Download
  8. ↑ Keith Cowing: NASA's Jesco von Puttkamer Has Died . SpaceRef.com . December 27, 2012. Retrieved December 27, 2012.
  9. ↑ see: Frhr. Jesco Hans Heinrich Max . In: Ellinor von Puttkamer (editor): History of the sex v. Puttkamer (= German Family Archives, Volume 83–85). 2nd edition, Degener, Neustadt an der Aisch 1984, ISBN 3-7686-5064-2 , page 645
  10. ^ Jesco von Puttkamer: 1933–2012 . In: nasa.gov
personal data
SURNAME Puttkamer, Jesco from
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Puttkamer, Jesco Hans Heinrich Max Freiherr von (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German-American aerospace engineer and author
DATE OF BIRTH September 22, 1933
PLACE OF BIRTH Leipzig
DATE OF DEATH December 27, 2012
Place of death Alexandria , Virginia