A Lunar Visionary

My good friend Klaus Heiss is resting in the hospital after recently suffering a stoke. Klaus is not widely known or familiar to many in the space community, but over the years, he has had a major impact on our national space program – a major player in both the Shuttle program and in helping [...]

Klaus Heiss and President Reagan
My good friend Klaus Heiss is resting in the hospital after recently suffering a stoke. Klaus is not widely known or familiar to many in the space community, but over the years, he has had a major impact on our national space program – a major player in both the Shuttle program and in helping to promote a return to the Moon. His work is thoughtful and visionary and deserves a wide readership.
Klaus comes from the Tyrol of Austria, near the Italian border. His academic background is in economics, specifically the economics of space transportation, but he also has considerable expertise in physics and engineering. In the late 1960s and 70s he worked on the rationale for the Space Shuttle, calling for the development of a fully reusable, liquid-fueled version. For a variety of reasons, such a path ...