Hans Guardian
Hans Hermann Hüter (born March 21, 1906 , † June 9, 1970 in Huntsville (Alabama) ) was a German-Swiss rocket engineer .
As part of the engineering team around Hermann Oberth , Rudolf Nebel and Klaus Riedel (together with Wernher von Braun , Rolf Engel , Hans Bermüller, Paul Ehmayr , Kurt Heinisch and Helmuth Zoike) was the custodian in the development, construction and tests with the involved in the first rockets powered by liquefied gas - initially at the Berlin-Reinickendorf rocket airfield , and most recently at the Peenemünde Army Research Center . In 1933 he was supposed to fly as a passenger in the "Magdeburg pilot rocket" , but this flight did not take place in the end.
After World War II he was brought to the United States as part of Operation Overcast , where he worked in Wernher von Braun's group at Fort Bliss . In 1960 he became head of the Agena and Centaur Systems Office at NASA .
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- File 001055, NASA Historical Reference Collection, NASA History Division, Washington DC
- Frank-E. Rietz: Die Magdeburger Pilotenrakete , mdv, ISBN 3-932776-21-6
- Frank H. Winter: Prelude to the Space Age, The Rocket Socities: 1924-1940 , Smithsonian Institution Press, ISBN 0-87474-963-8
- Frederick C. Durant III, George S. James: Smithsonian Annals of Flight No. 10 , Smithsonian Institution Press
- Wernher von Braun / Frederick I. Ordway: The rocket's red glare , Doubleday, ISBN 0-385-07847-1 , p. 135
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| SURNAME | Guardian, Hans |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Guardian, Hans Hermann |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German-Swiss rocket technician |
| DATE OF BIRTH | March 21, 1906 |
| DATE OF DEATH | June 9, 1970 |
| Place of death | Huntsville, Alabama |