Dr. Heinsheimer has served the aerospace industry as a leader across a variety of roles including scientist, engineer, and chief executive. Some of his accomplishments include the following:
Life-long AIAA member
Board member of the Southern California Aero Club
Returned to the Aerospace Corporation to imagine new missions
CEO of Colbaugh and Heinsheimer in Rolling Hills, CA.
Executive Vice President and Chief Scientist at SM&A
Manager at the Aerospace Corporation on US Air Force space programs
Vice-Chairman and Chairman of the South Coast Air Quality Management District
9 terms as Mayor of the city of Rolling Hills, CA
Scientist in The Planetary Society’s Mars Rover Tests in Kamchatka, USSR.
Organizer of 9 international Gordon Bennett Balloon Races
Designer and pilot of the ATMOSAT record-holding super pressure balloon
National Center for Scientific Research (CNRS), Paris, France (1964 to 1968)
Manager for rocket from French Algeria center (under Foreign Legion protection)
Design engineer at MIT Instrumental Lab on Apollo guidance
Supported the on-the-pad check-out of the John Glenn orbital Mercury- Atlas rocket
