[4] In 1943 he began working under Walter Dornberger on the ultimately unfinished Wasserfall missile project.
[3] Reisig was acquired in Operation Paperclip and traveled to the U.S. with von Braun's team, arriving December 6, 1945.
Reisig first worked at Fort Bliss before moving to Huntsville in 1951, teaching at the Redstone Arsenal Institute of Graduate Studies beginning in 1952 as a lecturer in Aerodynamics.
[2] He began work at the Marshall Space Flight Center in 1962 as a specialist in environmental effects on rockets.
Reisig stayed at the MSFC until his retirement in 1973, after which he taught at the University of Tennessee Space Institute and Concordia College in Minnesota.