Jesco Von Puttkamer (Paperback)

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Jesco Freiherr von Puttkamer (born September 22, 1933) is a German-American aerospace engineer and senior NASA manager from Leipzig. He belongs to a widely extended noble family, von Puttkamer. According to a widespread family tradition, each firstborn Puttkamer receives the first name of "Jesco." After World War II, during which his family lived in Switzerland, von Puttkamer studied mechanical engineering at Konstanz and the Technische Hochschule (RWTH Aachen) in Aachen, graduating with a university degree. In 1962 he left Germany for the United States, where he joined Wernher von Braun's rocket team at the NASA Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama as an engineer during the Apollo Program.