On the 3rd of June, the space community bade farewell to Georg von Tiesenhausen, mathematician, rocket scientist and the last surviving member of Wernher von Braun’s V2 research team. Von Tiesenhausen’s work was crucial to the space race, the Latvia-born scientist having been credited with the design of the Lunar Rover among others.
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