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