Heinz Hermann Koelle

Heinz Hermann Koelle ( born July 22, 1925 in Gdansk, † February 20, 2011 in Berlin) was a German - American rocket scientist, and air and space scientists.

Life

After the war he studied at the University of Stuttgart Mechanical Engineering and graduated in 1954 as a graduate engineer from. 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 1955-1960 he headed the U.S. Army Ballistic Missile Agency in Huntsville, Alabama. In this capacity he was a member of the starting team for the first U.S. satellite Explorer 1 in 1958. 1960 he became director of the Marshall Space Flight Center of NASA. There he was responsible for the preliminary design of the Saturn rocket and employees of the Apollo program. In 1965 he became director of the Institute of Astronautics 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. 2007 Koelle was awarded the Space Pioneer Award of the American " National Space Society ".

Works

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