Georg von Tiesenhausen

Georg von Tiesenhausen (18 May 1914 to 3 June 2018) was a German and American rocket scientist, born in Riga into a Baltic German noble family. He studied engineering in Hamburg, was conscripted into the Luftwaffe in 1939 and was allowed to finish his degree in 1943, after which he was sent to the Peenemuende Army Research Center to work on V-2 rockets with Wernher von Braun. Brought to the United States in 1953 under Operation Paperclip, he worked on guided missiles such as the Redstone at Redstone Arsenal and later moved to NASA, where he contributed to the Apollo program and the Shuttle era. He is credited with the first complete design of the Lunar Roving Vehicle driven on Apollo 15, 16 and 17, and later worked on space tether missions and lectured at Space Camp in Huntsville.