Dominique Schieb

Dominique Schieb

I was born in 1967 and at age 5, as I was taking dinner, my father called me one evening to see the launch of Apollo 17 on the TV news (our small TV set with wooden sides...).I just remember the night launch and that my parents told me 3 days later : "now they're arrived on the moon". I do not say that it was the beginning of my interest in space, but that impressed me and I understood that it was something unbelievable.

Years later, I began as an amateur astronomer and also a space buff. I have many books on space, especially human flights and I am an Apollo enthusiast. I'm also beginning a small collection of artifacts, flown or not. I collect meteorites since 20 years. For me, Apollo is an endless passion, because I think that it was a incredible time in history that was then not fully understood; and now with all the material available, books and online, going deep inside Apollo makes me touch many, many interesting fields, not only technical or scientific...And also meet interesting people.

I'm married, have two boys and my work has absolutely nothing to do with my passion, as I'm a charterer in a road haulage company.

The picture was taken in October 2011, at the Swiss Transportation Museum in Lucerne, Switzerland. It is perhaps not a great picture of me ... but I'm sitting beside Charlie Duke! He spent a full day there with European astronauts and also Rosemary Roosa (Stuart's daughter), who planted a moon tree (or a seed originating from an Apollo 14 moon tree).

March 2012