Ernst Geissler

{{Short description|German-American aerospace engineer}}

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Ernst Geissler (3 August 1915 in Chemnitz, Saxony, Germany – 3 June 1989 in Huntsville, Alabama, United States) was a German-American aerospace engineer. After World War II, he went to the United States on 16 November 1945 as part of the Argentina group, Operation Paperclip.{{cite web |url=http://www.astronautix.com/astros/geissler.htm |title=Geissler |publisher=Astronautix.com |accessdate=2010-08-29 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20101019045720/http://astronautix.com/astros/geissler.htm |archivedate=2010-10-19 }}

Geissler became director of the Aeroballistics Division at NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center in 1960.{{cite book| url=https://books.google.com/books?id=4KW5I4whPXcC&q=Ernst+Geissler&pg=PR29| title=The Saturn V F-1 engine: powering Apollo into history| author=Anthony Young| publisher=Springer| year= 2009| isbn= 978-0-387-09629-2 }}

Geissler was the recipient of the NASA Certificate of Appreciation in 1973.[https://history.nasa.gov/SP-4012/vol4/appa.htm National Aeronautics and Space Administration Honor Awards]

He was awarded the 1973 NASA Distinguished Service Medal.

He was elected a Fellow of the American Astronautical Society.{{cite web|url=http://astronautical.org/membership/fellows/ |title=American Astronautical Society – AAS Fellows |publisher=Astronautical.org |date= |accessdate=2010-08-29}}

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