Biography:Lutz Kayser
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Lutz Tilo Ferdinand Kayser (March 31, 1939 in Stuttgart, Germany, † November 19, 2017 (aged 78) [1] was a German aerospace engineer, who founded the world's first commercial space launch company,[2] OTRAG.
Lutz Kayser is the uncle of German serial entrepreneur Lin Kayser, who sits on the advisory board of the Munich space launcher company Isar Aerospace,[3] and who also works on liquid rocket engines[4] with his company LEAP 71. His father, the chemist Ludwig Kayser, was the director of the German sugar-producing corporation Suedzucker AG.[5] His brother Manfred Kayser was managing director of the Dornier aircraft factory in Lindau, Germany.[6] He died in November 2017, in the Marshall Islands.
References
- ↑ Kayser, Lin (2017-11-19). "R.I.P. Lutz Kayser – German rocket pioneer" (in en-US). https://jlk.ae/2017/11/19/r-i-p-lutz-kayser-german-rocket-pioneer/.
- ↑ "SpaceX Was Not The First Private Rocket Company" (in en). 2012-05-29. https://jalopnik.com/spacex-was-not-the-first-private-rocket-company-5913964.
- ↑ "Der erste Elon Musk: Die unglaubliche Geschichte der deutschen Raketenfirma OTRAG" (in de). 2020-12-05. https://1e9.community/t/der-erste-elon-musk-die-unglaubliche-geschichte-der-deutschen-raketenfirma-otrag/8807.
- ↑ Davies, Sam (2024-07-02). "Exclusive: Behind the scenes at world first hot fire test of computationally engineered rocket engine" (in en-gb). https://www.tctmagazine.com/api/content/93f7b3f4-378f-11ef-955e-12163087a831/.
- ↑ "Ludwig Kayser – RegioWiki Niederbayern". https://www.niederbayern-wiki.de/wiki/Ludwig_Kayser.
- ↑ ""Dann wäre Deutschland führend in der Welt"" (in de). Der Spiegel. 1978-08-13. ISSN 2195-1349. https://www.spiegel.de/politik/dann-waere-deutschland-fuehrend-in-der-welt-a-6e9104e9-0002-0001-0000-000040607304.
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