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KD5NJR > SPACE 17.12.16 23:47l 26 Lines 2258 Bytes #999 (0) @ WW
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Subj: Ernst Stuhlinger
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When I was at the "Alabama Space and Rocket Center" (that was what it was called when I was a kid) a few years ago, I saw a display of device that looked a lot like the inside of a thermostat. Purpose of the device was to establish when the Jupiter-C was at it's apogee and ready for the final stage burn or payload sep. I can't find that picture now. But that memory seems to fit with the below that Ernst was a guidance and control guy.
Stay warm.
73
de Scott
kd5njr
http://astronautix.com/s/stuhlinger.html
http://astronautix.com/s/stuhlingermars1957.html
Stuhlinger, Ernst
Credit: NASA
German-American engineer. Member of the German Rocket Team in the United States after WW2.
Born: 1913-12-19. Died: 2008-05-25. Birth Place: Germany.
Ernst Stuhlinger was a physicist who earned his Ph.D. at the University of Tuebingen in 1936 and continued research into cosmic rays and nuclear physics until 1941 while serving as an assistant professor at the Berlin Institute of Technology. He then spent two years as an enlisted man in the German army on the Russian front before being assigned to the rocket development center at Peenemuende, Germany. There he worked principally on guidance and control of rockets. After World War II, he came to the United States as part of Project Paperclip and worked with Wernher von Braun at Fort Bliss, Texas, and then at the Redstone Arsenal in Huntsville, Alabama. As of 1959, Director, Research Projects Division. Transferred to the Marshall Space Flight Center in 1960, he was director of its space science lab from 1960 to 1968 and then its associate director for science from 1968 to 1975, when he retired and became an adjunct professor and senior research scientist with the University of Alabama at Huntsville. He directed early planning for lunar exploration and the Apollo telescope mount, which flew on Skylab and produced a wealth of scientific information about the sun. He was also responsible for the early planning on the high energy astronomy observatory and contributed to the initial phases of the space telescope project. His work included studies of electric propulsion and of scientific payloads for the Space Shuttle. Passed away in Huntsville, Alabama in 2008.
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