[3][4] Ernst was among the scientists to surrender and travel to the United States to provide rocketry expertise via Operation Paperclip.

Friedrich was captured aboard U-873 and committed suicide in a Boston jail[3] before Ernst came to the United States on the first boat, November 16, 1945.

He then moved to Holloman Air Force Base where he also worked closely with White Sands Missile Range in New Mexico.

[1] Steinhoff is being credited as one of the first pioneers to popularize the concept of space resource utilization for Mars exploration.

[9] His daughter Monika Steinhoff is a painter in Santa Fe, New Mexico,[10] and a children's park on Holloman AFB is named after him.