Hans Hermann Hüter (born March 21, 1906, † June 9, 1970 in

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rocket engineer. Being part of the engineering team around

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, Rudolf Nebel and

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(together with Wernher von Braun,

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and Helmuth Zoike) Hüter was involved in the development, construction and tests of the first rockets powered by

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- initially at the Berlin-Reinickendorf rocket airfield, most recently at the Peenemünde Army Research Center. He was supposed to fly as a passenger in the "Magdeburg pilot rocket" in 1933, but this flight ultimately failed. After World War II, he was brought to the United States as part of Operation Paperclip, where he worked in the group of Wernher von Braun at Fort Bliss. In 1960, he became head of the Agena and

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Systems Office at NASA.

References

* Akte 001055, NASA Historical Reference Collection, NASA History Division, Washington DC * Frank-E. Rietz: Die Magdeburger Pilotenrakete, mdv, * Frank H. Winter: Prelude to the Space Age, The Rocket Societies: 192-1940, Smithsonian Institution Press, * Frederick C. Durant III & George S. James: Smithsonian Annals of Flight Nr. 10, Smithsonian Institution Press * Wernher von Braun/Frederick I. Ordway: The rocket‘s red glare, Doubleday, , p. 135 {{DEFAULTSORT:Hüter, Hans 1906 births 1970 deaths German rocket scientists