Moon Rocket Pioneer Dies

"Ernst Stuhlinger, one of the last surviving members of the German rocket team that in Huntsville developed NASA's first moon rockets, died Sunday. He was 94.

"He was one of the giants in the early days of space travel," said Ed Buckbee, who was a NASA public affairs officer and spokesman for the rocket team during the 1960s.

Stuhlinger was born in 1913 in the small German village of Niederrimbach. He graduated in 1936 from Tubingen University, where he studied under Hans Geiger, developer of the Geiger Counter."

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