Forty years ago on July 20, 1969, two men from Earth first landed on the Moon. Ten years before this historic date, in 1959, Dietrich E. Gudzent landed in Huntsville, Alabama (from Germany) to join Dr. Wernher Von Braun’s team. This team developed the Saturn rocket that powered the Apollo spacecraft to the Moon.  In 1966 Mr. Gudzent joined The National Aeronautics and Space Administration to add his hand to NASA’s great contributions in science and technology .  He stayed with NASA until 1989 at which time he retired to the Ohio Valley.

Dietrich Gudzent always had a head for finding a route to and of the stars, planets, and other celestial bodies. Before he arrived in Alabama, he received a Masters Degree in Physics from Humboldt University in Berlin, Germany. He taught Astronomy at colleges in the Berlin area.  In Munich he spent four years working in meteorology.

In recent years Mr. Gudzent has been working on writing a book on the the history of science. In addition he is a guest expert for The Old Farmer’s Almanac. In this capacity he contributed the article, “The Great Conjunction or Planetary Alignment of May 5, 2000″, in which he debunked some so-called experts’ insistence that the combined gravitational pull of: the Moon, Sun, Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter, and Saturn would destabilize the Earth and cause widespread catastrophe.

Dietrich Gudzent was acknowledged by The Ohio Academy of Science as one of the volunteer reviewers whose advice, comments and corrections to an earlier draft of HeartlandScience.org enabled them to correct errors and to clarify the text and illustrations.

At home in the lovely village of Mt. Pleasant, Ohio, Mr. Gudzent is a model citizen as he has been elected as the Clerk/Treasurer of this town. He is a widower with a grown daughter and son, and the happy added plus of two grandchildren. He has a keen ear for music and prefers to listen to more classical genres.

Dietrich E. Gudzent can be found on the Madison Who’s Who Directory where he is looking forward to networking with you.