Hans Mark

‘God of aerospace engineering’: Hans Mark, former UT chancellor who fled Nazis, dies at 92, Austin Americqn statesman
“Aerospace engineer Hans Mark, a former University of Texas System chancellor who escaped the Nazis as a boy and grew up to help put a man on the moon, died Saturday morning. Mark was 92. He died at Westminster senior home in Austin and had suffered from progressive dementia.”
Keith’s note: Ad Astra.

Keith Cowing

NASA Watch founder, Explorers Club Fellow, ex-NASA, Away Teams, Journalist, Space & Astrobiology, Lapsed climber.

One response to “Hans Mark”

1. John C Mankins says:

   December 21, 2021 at 8:23 pm

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   Dr. Hans Mark was a giant from an era of giants in innovation such as Dyson and Bussard. I met him some 15 years ago while working on the Navy’s electromagnetic rail gun (EMRG) program, but during the 90s I saw him many times in his portrait up in the Administrator’s suite at NASA Hq. He was thoughtful and effective, and affected much of US space and technology for more than 30 years.