I'm looking for a book that I read 10 years ago. But the book is of course way older. It contained 3 stories that have a common main character. I'll try to remember as many details as possible. The book was in German, but hopefully it was a translation and somebody here knows it.
First story: Minerals crashing into sun
The first story started with mining minerals on Pluto. Only two persons work on Pluto. Their job is to monitor the machines that are mining. One transport ship arrives with two men, which collects the minerals and take them to Earth (or Mars, which was inhabited, I think).
During this transport there's a radioactive accident; the two people on board flee with a rescue ship. When they finally manage to contact Earth, the mining cooperation is angry (millions in money are lost), and the mining cooperation tries the rescue the minerals. And this is the job of the main character.
As it turns out, the ship with the minerals is on the way directly to the sun and they have to do some risky stuff to prevent this from happening. Not sure if they had success.
Second story: Emigrating cult
There's a cult that tries to emigrate to another planet. The planet is about 2000 (?) years away. So they build a gigantic ship with lots of nuclear power plants, fields for planting, and so on. A few thousand (?) people start on this mission. After they start, the Earth government calculates that such a mission is far too risky and tries to stop them. The main character and a second one fly after the ship in a little ship, and convince the cult leaders that they also want to join the mission. On board they try to persuade the people to turn around.
Third story: Man from Neptune (?)
Humans are the only race in these stories. There are no aliens or such. Therefore there was quite a big excitement and fear on Earth when a unidentified spaceship turned up on radar. As it later turned out, it was a spaceship from Earth, but it was very old and didn't had the common identifying radio signals. The ship was lost on a mission to Neptune (?).
The rest is only very vague in my memory and I think I'm mixing it with a few other stories. I think there's one or more persons frozen on board and the main character has to go on board and he finds them.
Other things
The stories play in our universe a few hundred years in the future.
The main character has a girlfriend and even marries her. I think for one of the three missions he has to cancel their honeymoon.
There were a few supercomputers on Earth. The main characters used them a few times to compute different stuff, for instance to compute the routes for the spaceships. During the second story he asked the computer to tell him everything important about the cult in 10 minutes and the computer prepared a 10-minute documentation film for him.
