Jesco von Puttkamer, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Jesco von Puttkamer

German-American aerospace engineer; senior NASA manager

Date of Birth: 22-Sep-1933

Place of Birth: Leipzig, Leipzig District, Germany

Date of Death: 27-Dec-2012

Profession: writer, engineer, university teacher, aerospace engineer, non-fiction writer, science fiction writer

Nationality: Germany

Zodiac Sign: Virgo

Jesco Hans Heinrich Max Freiherr von Puttkamer (22 September 1933 – 27 December 2012) was a German-American aerospace engineer, senior manager at NASA, and a pulp science fiction writer. He was an advocate of manned space exploration, and the search for extraterrestrial intelligence (SETI).
While at NASA, he served as the program manager in charge of long-range planning of deep space manned activities (flights beyond Earth orbit).
He was regarded as an expert on the Russian space program.Puttkamer assisted with daily on-orbit operations at NASA from 2009 until 2012. He died of a sudden flu-like illness on 27 December 2012.His was given the nickname Jessie by DeForest Kelley, whom Puttkammer called Dee.