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Schwehm gained his Doctor of Philosophy in Applied Physics from the Ruhr University, Bochum, Germany.
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He was Mission Manager for the Rosetta mission until his retirement. He worked at the European Space Operations Centre (ESOC) modelling the dust environment for Halley"s comet. He then became European Space Agency’s first planetary scientist, working on the Giotto mission that provided the first close-up images of a comet nucleus, Halley"s Comet.
Schwehm became lead scientist on European Space Agency"s Rosetta mission in 1985, that will culminate in Rosetta looping around the Sun with comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko in 2014-2015.
He was mission manager for European Space Agency"s Smart-1 mission that impacted the Moon in September 2006 ending three years surveying the Moon. Schwehm is married with two children, and in spare time enjoys modern literature and art, classical music, food and wine.
