Posted on 12/29/2012 12:14:28 PM PST by EveningStar
Jesco von Puttkamer, a NASA engineer who helped launch the first astronauts to the moon, died Thursday (Dec. 27) at the age of 79 following a brief illness.
(Excerpt) Read more at space.com ...
“Another old Nazi dies. He now gets to face a higher tribunal for what ever crimes he may have done on earth.”
No, he was too young. Maybe he could have been a bad guy if he were older...but he wasn’t, so we’ll never know.
Thanks for the ping. Very interesting biography. I may have met him, but I didn’t know him. May he rest in peace.
I clicked the reply button only once but the system issued multiple pings. This didn’t use to happen. It’s a recent problem and hopefully it will be fixed.
Born in 1933, he would have been 11 when Hitler killed himself.
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