bridges vol. 10, June 2006 / News from the Network

by Caroline Adenberger

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Building balloons, rockets, and satellites and sending them to outer space, making amazing discoveries - a childhood dream of many. Guenter Riegler, a native of Bad Kreuzen in Austria, did all of these things. He literally built "by hand" an X-ray detector, put it on a balloon, and sent it into the sky. Later, Riegler's X-ray detectors flew on NASA rockets and even satellites.
But Riegler has not only been an outstanding scientist: After almost 20 years working as a scientist at various NASA centers, in the 1980s he followed the call to become a research manager at NASA's headquarters in Washington, DC. A position that was originally scheduled for two years turned into a 15-year appointment, and the experienced hands-on scientist turned into a successful research manager.

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