Fridtjof A. Speer
From The Space Library
Dr. Fridtjof A. Speer was manager of the Mission Operations Office in Program Management at the NASA Marshall Space Flight Center. A member of the rocket research and development team in Huntsville since March 1955, Dr. Speer was assistant professor at the Technical University of Berlin and Physics Editor of the Central Chemical Abstract Magazine in Berlin prior to moving to the USA. He earned both his master’s degree and Ph.D. in physics from the Technical University. From 1943 until the end of the war, he was a member of the Guided Missile Development group at Peenemunde. Dr. Speer was chief of the Flight Evaluation and Operations Studies Division prior to accepting his position at MSFC in August 1965. He became a U.S. citizen in 1960.
