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Dr Eberhard Friedrich Michael Rees was a German rocketry pioneer and the second Director of the NASA
NASA

The National Aeronautics and Space Administration is an agency of the Federal government of the United States, responsible for the nation's public list of space agencies....
 Marshall Space Flight Center
Marshall Space Flight Center

The George C. Marshall Space Flight Center , the original home of NASA, is a lead center for Spacecraft propulsion, Space Shuttle propulsion, Space Shuttle external tank, crew training and payloads, International Space Station design and construction, for computers, networks, and information management....
. After being assistant manager of a steel mill
Steel mill

A steel mill is an industrial plant for the manufacture of steel.Steel is an alloy of iron and carbon. It is produced in a two-stage process....
 in Leipzig
Leipzig

Leipzig is, with a population of over 511,252, the largest city in the States of Germany of Saxony, Germany....
, Germany, Rees arrived at the Army Research Center Peenemünde
Peenemünde

Peenem?nde is a village in the northeast of the Germany part of the Usedom island. It stands near the mouth of the Peene river, on the easternmost part of the German Baltic Sea coast....
 in the Spring of 1939 and managed V-2 rocket
V-2 rocket

The V-2 rocket was the first ballistic missile and first man-made object to achieve sub-orbital spaceflight, the progenitor of all modern rockets....
 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
Operation Paperclip

Operation Paperclip was the code name for the 1945 Joint Intelligence Objectives AgencyOffice_of_Strategic_Services recruitment of scientists from Nazi Germany to the U.S....
 rocket scientists brought to the US by the Army Ordnance Corps, arriving at Logan Field
Logan International Airport

General Edward Lawrence Logan International Airport in the East Boston, Massachusetts neighborhood of Boston, Massachusetts, Massachusetts, United States , is one of the 20 busiest airports in the United States, with over 26 million passengers a year....
 on October 2, 1945 and serving first at Aberdeen Proving Grounds, then Fort Bliss
Fort Bliss

Fort Bliss is a United States Army post in the U.S. states of New Mexico and Texas. With an area of approximately , it is the second largest such installation in the Army behind the adjacent White Sands Missile Range, and the largest TRADOC installation....
 in 1946 and in 1950, Redstone Arsenal
Redstone Arsenal

Redstone Arsenal is a U.S. Army post and a census-designated place located next to the city of Huntsville, Alabama in Madison County, Alabama, Alabama, United States, and is included in the Huntsville-Decatur Combined Statistical Area....
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Dr Eberhard Friedrich Michael Rees was a German rocketry pioneer and the second Director of the NASA
NASA

The National Aeronautics and Space Administration is an agency of the Federal government of the United States, responsible for the nation's public list of space agencies....
 Marshall Space Flight Center
Marshall Space Flight Center

The George C. Marshall Space Flight Center , the original home of NASA, is a lead center for Spacecraft propulsion, Space Shuttle propulsion, Space Shuttle external tank, crew training and payloads, International Space Station design and construction, for computers, networks, and information management....
. After being assistant manager of a steel mill
Steel mill

A steel mill is an industrial plant for the manufacture of steel.Steel is an alloy of iron and carbon. It is produced in a two-stage process....
 in Leipzig
Leipzig

Leipzig is, with a population of over 511,252, the largest city in the States of Germany of Saxony, Germany....
, Germany, Rees arrived at the Army Research Center Peenemünde
Peenemünde

Peenem?nde is a village in the northeast of the Germany part of the Usedom island. It stands near the mouth of the Peene river, on the easternmost part of the German Baltic Sea coast....
 in the Spring of 1939 and managed V-2 rocket
V-2 rocket

The V-2 rocket was the first ballistic missile and first man-made object to achieve sub-orbital spaceflight, the progenitor of all modern rockets....
 fabrication and assembly. He served as Wernher von Braun's deputy from World War II through the Apollo program.

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Rees was in the first group of Operation Paperclip
Operation Paperclip

Operation Paperclip was the code name for the 1945 Joint Intelligence Objectives AgencyOffice_of_Strategic_Services recruitment of scientists from Nazi Germany to the U.S....
 rocket scientists brought to the US by the Army Ordnance Corps, arriving at Logan Field
Logan International Airport

General Edward Lawrence Logan International Airport in the East Boston, Massachusetts neighborhood of Boston, Massachusetts, Massachusetts, United States , is one of the 20 busiest airports in the United States, with over 26 million passengers a year....
 on October 2, 1945 and serving first at Aberdeen Proving Grounds, then Fort Bliss
Fort Bliss

Fort Bliss is a United States Army post in the U.S. states of New Mexico and Texas. With an area of approximately , it is the second largest such installation in the Army behind the adjacent White Sands Missile Range, and the largest TRADOC installation....
 in 1946 and in 1950, Redstone Arsenal
Redstone Arsenal

Redstone Arsenal is a U.S. Army post and a census-designated place located next to the city of Huntsville, Alabama in Madison County, Alabama, Alabama, United States, and is included in the Huntsville-Decatur Combined Statistical Area....
. After serving as Deputy Director of Development Operations for the Army Ballistic Missile Agency
Army Ballistic Missile Agency

The Army Ballistic Missile Agency was the agency formed to develop the United States Army first intermediate range ballistic missile. It was established at Redstone Arsenal on February 1, 1956 and commanded by Major General John Bruce Medaris with Doctor Wernher von Braun....
, Rees became the Marshall Space Flight Center
Marshall Space Flight Center

The George C. Marshall Space Flight Center , the original home of NASA, is a lead center for Spacecraft propulsion, Space Shuttle propulsion, Space Shuttle external tank, crew training and payloads, International Space Station design and construction, for computers, networks, and information management....
 Deputy for Technical and Scientific Matters in 1960 and directed the Lunar Roving Vehicle
Lunar rover

File:Apollo15LunarRover.jpgThe Lunar Roving Vehicle or lunar rover was a type of surface exploration rover used on the Moon during the Apollo program....
 program.

On March 1, 1970, Rees was appointed to the position of Director of the Marshall Space Flight Center
Marshall Space Flight Center

The George C. Marshall Space Flight Center , the original home of NASA, is a lead center for Spacecraft propulsion, Space Shuttle propulsion, Space Shuttle external tank, crew training and payloads, International Space Station design and construction, for computers, networks, and information management....
, from which he managed Skylab
Skylab

Skylab was the first space station the United States launched into orbit, and the second space station ever visited by a human crew. The 100 ton space station was in Earth's orbit from 1973 to 1979, and it was visited by crews three times in 1973 and 1974....
 space station development and retired in 1973.

On April 2 1998, Rees died in a DeLand, Florida
DeLand, Florida

DeLand is the county seat of Volusia County, Florida, Florida. In 2006, the U.S. Census Bureau estimated the city's population to be 24,375. It is part of the Deltona-Daytona Beach-Ormond Beach, Florida Metropolitan Statistical Area, which had an estimated population of 436,575 in 2006....
, hospital at the age of 89.