Dr Eberhard Friedrich Michael Rees was a German rocketry pioneer and the second Director of the NASA Marshall Space Flight Center. After being assistant manager of a steel mill in Leipzig, Germany, Rees arrived at the Army Research Center Peenemünde in the Spring of 1939 and managed V-2 rocket fabrication and assembly.

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  • Dr Eberhard Friedrich Michael Rees was a German rocketry pioneer and the second Director of the NASA Marshall Space Flight Center. After being assistant manager of a steel mill in Leipzig, Germany, Rees arrived at the Army Research Center Peenemünde in the Spring of 1939 and managed V-2 rocket fabrication and assembly. He served as Wernher von Braun's deputy from World War II through the Apollo program. Rees was in the first group of Operation Paperclip rocket scientists brought to the US by the Army Ordnance Corps, arriving at Logan Field on October 2, 1945 and serving first at Aberdeen Proving Grounds, then Fort Bliss in 1946 and in 1950, Redstone Arsenal. After serving as Deputy Director of Development Operations for the Army Ballistic Missile Agency, Rees became the Marshall Space Flight Center Deputy for Technical and Scientific Matters in 1960 and directed the Lunar Roving Vehicle program.On March 1, 1970, Rees was appointed to the position of Director of the Marshall Space Flight Center, from which he managed Skylab space station development and retired in 1973.On April 2 1998, Rees died in a DeLand, Florida, hospital at the age of 89. (en)
  • Eberhard Friedrich Michael Rees (* 28. April 1908 in Trossingen; † 2. April 1998 in De Land, Florida; amerikanischer Staatsbürger seit 11. November 1954) war Raketenspezialist und von März 1970 bis Januar 1973 Direktor des Marshall Space Flight Centers. (de)
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  • Dr Eberhard Friedrich Michael Rees was a German rocketry pioneer and the second Director of the NASA Marshall Space Flight Center. After being assistant manager of a steel mill in Leipzig, Germany, Rees arrived at the Army Research Center Peenemünde in the Spring of 1939 and managed V-2 rocket fabrication and assembly. (en)
  • Eberhard Friedrich Michael Rees (* 28. April 1908 in Trossingen; † 2. April 1998 in De Land, Florida; amerikanischer Staatsbürger seit 11. November 1954) war Raketenspezialist und von März 1970 bis Januar 1973 Direktor des Marshall Space Flight Centers. (de)
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