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PEOPLE INFORMATION: Erik Tandberg, photographed here at his home in Majorstuen in July 2019. Photo: Geir Olsen / NTB scanpix
Aerospace expert Erik Tandberg will visit today from Rice Church.
Tandberg, who is known, among other things, for directing NRK’s monthly landing broadcasts, has been cited by the station as “one of the most important voices in our history” and “one of the great posters of the era postwar”.
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The civil engineer and aerospace expert passed away on May 2, at age 87, after a brief illness.
He was a trained aircraft mechanic and jet engine mechanic from the United States and became known when he commented on the Apollo landing on NRK in 1969.
BISETTES: The ceremony will take place at Ris Church on Wednesday. Photo: Vidar Ruud / NTB scanpix
After several years as a consultant in, among other things, the oil industry, he began working full time for the Norwegian Space Center in 1992.
Private ceremony
The funeral service is private and is transferred on the funeral home website.
PROGRAM: Erik Tandberg has a private funeral. Photo: Screenshot from Jølstad
According to the program, priest Elisabeth Thorsen is the initiator of the funeral.
She describes Tandberg as a beloved father, father-in-law, grandfather, girlfriend, friend, and colleague and a natural focal point in both daily life and at parties.
– It was like a breath from a great world, and at the same time a line of connection with the closest and most basic, says the priest.
CELEBERT: Ex: Jan-Erik Rønningen, Nammo, CEO of Research Council Arvid Hallén (back), Crown Prince Haakon, Inga Bolsvik, Erik Tandberg and Pål Brekke of Norsk Romsenter, during the Crown Prince’s visit to the Square of the University in the research days in September 2011. Photo: Berit Roald / Scanpix
– Defend values such as openness, generosity and determination. He defended firmness and the courage to listen before responding. It has shown us that knowing the world with ease and weight is not a contradiction. Being sharp doesn’t preclude being friendly, Thorsen says later.
Daughter Vibeke saves words from memory for Tandberg.
– When she last breathed, I held her hand tight, she says.
He also says that it has been heated to see all those who have cried with them and have expressed respect for the father.
“Dad was a man with a big heart, he touched everyone who knew him,” she says.
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Nils Bech performs the solo song “Delicious is the earth” at the funeral.
Ole Johan Skjelbred-Knudsen reads poems: “Vanishing Point” by Tor Ulven and “Heim” by Helge Torvund.
Tine Thing Helseth plays “What a Wonderful World” on trumpet.
In his last interview with VG, in 2017, Tandberg recalled life both before and after 1969. There he said that commenting on the moon landing is the greatest thing he has ever experienced.
