Ludwig Roth (June 10, 1909 – November 1, 1967) was the

Aerospace engineer Aerospace engineering is the primary field of engineering concerned with the development of aircraft and spacecraft. It has two major and overlapping branches: aeronautical engineering and astronautical engineering. Avionics engineering is si ...

who was the head of the Peenemünde Future Projects Office which designed the

Wasserfall The ''Wasserfall Ferngelenkte FlaRakete'' (Waterfall Remote-Controlled A-A Rocket) was a German guided supersonic surface-to-air missile project of World War II. Development was not completed before the end of the war and it was not used operati ...

and created advanced rockets designs such as the A9/A10 ICBM. Roth arrived in New York under

Operation Paperclip Operation Paperclip was a secret United States intelligence program in which more than 1,600 German scientists, engineers, and technicians were taken from the former Nazi Germany to the U.S. for government employment after the end of World War ...

on November 16, 1945 via the SS ''Argentina'' and served at

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and

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. He and his family relocated to

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. His son Axel Roth went on to work for NASA as an engineer, and ended his career as Associate Director of Marshall Space Flight Center. His son Volker worked for

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as Space Lab Design Manager. His grandson Karl Roth currently works for COLSA Corporation supporting

International Space Station The International Space Station (ISS) is the largest modular space station currently in low Earth orbit. It is a multinational collaborative project involving five participating space agencies: NASA (United States), Roscosmos (Russia), JAXA ( ...

Payload Ground System Integration.

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