Helmut Horn

Helmut Horn (1912-1994) was a German guided-missile engineer, born in Frankfurt, who became a member of the German rocket team in the United States. He arrived under Project Paperclip on 16 November 1945 aboard the Argentina from Le Havre and worked his entire career with the team at Fort Bliss, White Sands and then Huntsville, Alabama. As of 1960 he was Head of the Dynamics Analysis Branch of the Aeroballistics Division at the NASA Marshall Space Flight Center. The Encyclopedia Astronautica page also lists him among the Marshall Space Flight Center representatives at an April 1962 meeting at NASA Headquarters that reviewed the lunar orbit rendezvous technique for Project Apollo. He died at Huntsville, Alabama, on 1 January 1994 according to that page.