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Jesco von Puttkamer

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2

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0.2

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Movies: 2Series: 1Crew credits: 1

TMDB ID: 2681278

IMDb ID: nm0902829

Known for: Acting

Born: September 22, 1933

Died: December 27, 2012

Age: 79

Place of birth: Leipzig, Germany

Gender: Male

Adult content flag: No

Career span: 1979 - 1988

Years active: 10

Average TMDB rating: 6.49

Wikidata: Q101715

Also known as

Jesco Hans Heinrich Max Freiherr von Puttkamer

Other jobs

Scientific Consultant (1)

Biography

Jesco Hans Heinrich Max Freiherr von Puttkamer was a German-American aerospace engineer, senior manager at NASA, and a pulp science fiction writer. In 1962, Puttkamer left West Germany for the United States, where he was recruited into Wernher von Braun's rocket team at the NASA Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama. He was a senior engineer on the Apollo program. His supervisor at Marshall was Ernst Geissler. Puttkammer was a consultant and technical advisor for Star Trek: The Motion Picture (1979), contributing the hypothetical theory behind the faster-than-light space warp drive, and the wormhole effect featured in the film.

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