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Adam Steltzner
Adam Diedrich Steltzner (born 1963)〔 is an American NASA engineer who works for the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL). He worked on several flight projects including Galileo, Cassini, Mars Pathfinder, Mars Exploration Rovers (MER). He was the lead engineer of the Mars Science Laboratory,〔〔 ''Curiosity'' rover EDL phase (Entry, Descent and Landing), and helped design, build and test the sky crane landing system.〔〔
The media has portrayed Steltzner as a "rock and roll" engineer.〔 NPR's ''Morning Edition'' said "he has pierced ears, wears snakeskin boots and sports an Elvis haircut,"〔 while the ''EE Times'' called him "a bit of a hipster" and a "new breed of engineer" who is media savvy.〔〔
==Personal life==
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 the heir to the Schilling spice fortune.〔 He 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.〔 "I was sort of studying sex, drugs and rock and roll in high school," says Steltzner.〔 After high school he played bass and drums in new wave bands.〔 He studied jazz at Berklee College of Music in Boston, for less than a year.〔 As ''The New Yorker'' put it, "He was a college dropout and small-town playboy (he briefly dated the model Carré Otis), an assistant manager at an organic market and an occasional grower of weed. He had few skills and fewer prospects."〔 Around 1984, while driving home from music gigs at night, he noticed how the position of the constellation Orion was in a different place than before. This fascinated him, so he decided to take an astronomy class at College of Marin, but he was required to complete a class in physics first, and it was there he had a revelation: nature could be understood and predicted. As Steltzner put it, "I had found religion."〔 By 1985 he quit music and devoted himself full-time to the challenge of school.〔〔 His education included Tamalpais High School (1981)〔〔 and College of Marin ; a Bachelor of Science degree in mechanical engineering at University of California, Davis (1990); a Master of Science degree in applied mechanics at California Institute of Technology (1991); and a PhD in engineering mechanics at University of Wisconsin–Madison (1999).〔〔〔
Steltzner is married to wife Trisha, who also works at JPL, and has two daughters, Caledonia and Olive. His second daughter was born three weeks after the Mars landing in 2012.〔
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