- Gerhard Schwehm
Professor Dr Gerhard Schwehm PhD (b.
13 March 1949 ,Ludwigshafen am Rhein ,Germany ) is Head ofPlanetary Science for theEuropean Space Agency (ESA), and ProjectScientist for the Rosetta mission.Education and work
Schwehm gained his
PhD in AppliedPhysics from theRuhr University ,Bochum , Germany.He worked at the
European Space Operations Centre (ESOC) modelling the dust environment forHalley's comet . He then became ESA’s first planetary scientist, working on the Giotto mission that provided the first close-up images of acomet nucleus, Halley's Comet.Schwehm became lead scientist on ESA's Rosetta mission in 1985, that will culminate in Rosetta looping around the
Sun with comet67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko in2014 -2015 .He was mission manager for ESA's
Smart-1 mission that impacted theMoon in September 2006 ending three years surveying the Moon.ocial matters
Schwehm is married with two children, and in spare time enjoys modern literature and art, classical music, food and wine. [Accidental space scientist: An interview with Gerhard Schwehm (21 January 2004) [http://www.esa.int/SPECIALS/Rosetta/SEMAP5474OD_0.html] accessed 7 March 2007]
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