Gerhard Schwehm
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Gerhard Schwehm (born 13 March 1949,
Ludwigshafen am Rhein, Germany) is Head of Solar System Science Operations Division for the European Space Agency (ESA). He was Mission Manager for the Rosetta
mission until his retirement.
Education
Schwehm gained his
Ruhr University, Bochum
, Germany.
Career
Schwehm was a scientist at the
Giotto mission that provided the first close-up images of a comet
nucleus, Halley's Comet.
Schwehm became lead scientist on ESA's Rosetta mission in 1985, that will culminate in Rosetta looping around the
67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko
in 2014-2015.
Schwehm was mission manager for ESA's
Smart-1 mission that impacted the Moon
in September 2006 ending three years surveying the Moon.
Personal life
Schwehm is married with five children. [1]
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