Ernst Steinhoff
Ernst Steinhoff | |
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| Born | February 11, 1908 Technische Hochschule Darmstadt |
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| Fields | Aeronautics, Meteorology, Engineering |
| Institutions | Peenemünde Army Research Center Fort Bliss Holloman Air Force Base |
Ernst August Wilhelm Steinhoff (February 11, 1908 – December 2, 1987) pilot, holding distance records, and had the honorary Luftwaffe rank of "Flight Captain".
Ernst Steinhoff earned his PhD at the Technische Hochschule Darmstadt (today Technische Universität Darmstadt) in 1940 with a dissertation on aviation instruments.
His younger brother Friedrich Steinhoff assisted rocket experiments while commanding
Steinhoff is being credited as one of the first pioneers to popularize the concept of space resource utilization for Mars exploration.[8] He became the first chairman of Working Group on Extraterrestrial Resources (WGER).
As of 1981, Mrs. Dixie Cantwell of Alamogordo, NM, was working on researching and writing the biography of "Alamogordo's well-known scientist, Dr. Ernest A Steinhoff". The status of said biography, and its progress remains unknown.[9]
His daughter Monika Steinhoff is a painter in Santa Fe, New Mexico,[10] and a children's park on Holloman AFB is named after him.[11]
References
- ^ a b c "Ernst A. Steinhoff". International Space Hall of Fame. New Mexico Museum of Space History. Archived from the original on March 6, 2019. Retrieved December 14, 2010.
- ISBN 067477650X
- ^ a b "Friedrich Steinhoff". Guðmundur Helgason. Retrieved 2012-10-05.
- ^ Dornberger, Walter (1954). V-2. New York: The Viking Press, Inc. p. 214-215.
- ^ "Steinhoff, Ernst". Astronautix. Archived from the original on April 19, 2005. Retrieved December 14, 2010.
- ^ "Dr. Ernst Steinhoff". White Sands Missile Range Hall of Fame. White Sands Missile Range Museum. Archived from the original on December 22, 2010. Retrieved December 14, 2010.
- ^ Stuhlinger, E., Ordway, F.I., McCall, J.C., and Bucher, G.C. (1963) Aeronautical Engineering and Science, McGraw-Hill.
- ^ Portree, David S. F. "A Forgotten Pioneer of Mars Resource Utilization (1962-1963)". Wired. Archived from the original on 2014-04-12.
- ^ Tularosa Basin Historical Society (1981). Otero County Pioneer Family Histories, Volume I. Otero County, New Mexico, United States. p. 355.
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- ^ "49 CES Airmen build Steinhoff Park playground". Holloman Air Force Base. 2007-06-18. Retrieved 2023-05-28.
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