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Keith's note: According to his family: "Dr. Klaus Peter Heiss passed away peacefully on July 24, 2010 in his hometown Brixen/South Tyrol after an extended illness that he met with grace and quiet determination. Funeral will be held Tuesday July 27, 2010 in the Pfarrkirche Brixen/South Tyrol. Memorial service in the Deutschordenskirche in Vienna, Singerstrasse 7, in September. Dr. Heiss was bearer of several awards like Goldenes Ehrenzeichen der Auslandsoesterreicher, NASA Distinguished Public Service Medal, and Ehrenzeichen der Stadt Brixen." - The Heiss and the Kuen family Brixen/South Tyrol and Hinterbruehl/Austria.
Klaus Heiss
Klaus was a true visionary and a great advocate for using the Moon as a stepping stone into the Solar System. He was a fine gentleman and a good friend. I shall miss him.
I wrote a tribute to Klaus last February, posted here:
http://blogs.airspacemag.com/moon/2010/02/23/a-lunar-visionary/
Klaus was a friend and colleague of many years who always had one more new idea about space settlement. He gave the single women in his apartment building, the Dresden in Dupont Circle, a heartthrob that many chased after him. In his volumnous apartment he always had a new space book to show and white papers to advocate. A good man that we will all miss. One more spacer gone to his reward.
Klaus was a bright man, a forward thinker, and a good friend. I'll miss our conversations.
When names are given to streets in the first lunar city his name should be on a major one so no one forgets it. Condolences to his family.
Klaus was a mentor to me when it came to melding my work in Operations Research with Economics. He took an interest in my career literally years after our work together for Econ Inc. in Princeton was no longer feasible.
I was just out of grad school with my Masters when he hired me, obviously loved talking to me about game theory and always showed faith in me, even when I doubted myself.
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