1. Adam Diedrich Steltzner was born on 1963 and is an American NASA engineer who works for the Jet Propulsion Laboratory.
18 Facts About Adam Steltzner
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Adam Steltzner worked on several flight projects including Galileo, Cassini, Mars Pathfinder, Mars Exploration Rovers.
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Adam Steltzner was the lead engineer of the Mars Science Laboratory EDL phase, and helped design, build and test the sky crane landing system.
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Adam Steltzner, born 1963, is a native of the San Francisco Bay Area and came from a family that was financially well off, his father being an heir to the Schilling spice fortune.
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Adam Steltzner struggled in classes in high school, earned a failing grade in geometry, and was told by his father he would never amount to anything but a ditch digger.
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Adam Steltzner studied jazz at Berklee College of Music in Boston, for less than a year.
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Adam Steltzner is married with three children; his wife once worked at JPL as well.
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Adam Steltzner's second daughter was born three weeks after the Mars landing in 2012.
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Adam Steltzner published an autobiographical book in 2016 titled The Right Kind of Crazy: A True Story of Teamwork, Leadership, and High-Stakes Innovation, a memoir of his time at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory and the building of the Mars Science Laboratory.
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Adam Steltzner speaks publicly on the topics of leadership, innovation, team building, and the power of curiosity and exploration.
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Adam Steltzner is employed at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory where he designed, tested and built the sky crane landing system for the Curiosity rover.
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Adam Steltzner was phase lead and development manager for EDL of the lander, which successfully landed on Mars on August 5,2012.
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Adam Steltzner joined JPL in 1991, in the Spacecraft Structures and Dynamics group.
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Adam Steltzner was the landing systems engineer on the cancelled comet mission Champollion and the mechanical systems lead for EDL on MER.
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Adam Steltzner is the chief engineer of the Mars 2020 project, which launched the Perseverance rover to Mars in July 2020.
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Adam Steltzner participated on the NPR radio quiz program Wait Wait.
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Adam Steltzner was among the scientists and engineers featured on the NOVA episode "Mars Dead or Alive", which chronicled the process that ultimately delivered the rovers Spirit and Opportunity to Mars.
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Adam Steltzner appeared on the news program Studio B with Shepard Smith on August 6,2012.