| LC control no. | n 85020505 |
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| Descriptive conventions | rda |
| Personal name heading | Von Tiesenhausen, Georg F. |
| Variant(s) | Tiesenhausen, Georg F. von |
| Associated country | Germany United States |
| Located | Huntsville (Ala.) |
| Birth date | 1914-05-05 |
| Death date | 2018-06-03 |
| Place of birth | Rì„ga (Latvia) |
| Place of death | Huntsville (Ala.) |
| Field of activity | Rockets (Aeronautics) |
| Affiliation | George C. Marshall Space Flight Center |
| Profession or occupation | Scientists |
| Found in | His Magnetic spin reduction system for free spinning objects patent application, 1984: p. 2 (Georg F. Von Tiesenhausen, NASA/MSFC) Scotsman WWW site, viewed June 8, 2018 (Georg von Tiesenhausen, rocket pioneer. Born: 18 May 1914 in Riga, Latvia. Died: 3 June, 2018 in Huntsville, Alabama, aged 104; last of the German rocket team that launched the US space programme; died at his Alabama home; started his career in 1943 at the German Rocket Centre in Peenemùˆnde, where he held the position of section chief; the famed scientist worked alongside Wernher von Braun during the Second World War in Germany; several years after the war, von Tiesenhausen joined von Braun in Huntsville, Alabama; while at the Marshall Space Flight Center, von Tiesenhausen designed and created the lunar rover that accompanied the last three Apollo missions in 1971 and 1972; in 1986, von Tiesenhausen retired after a career that spanned more than four decades, butcontinued working with the centre, specifically with its space camps) |
| Associated language | eng |
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