 He died at Stanford Hospital, Stanford, California on the evening of November 10, 2001 after a lingering illness.Max Hunter was Phi Beta Kappa, Tau Beta Pi, and a Fellow of the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA), the American Astronautical Society (AAS), and the British Interplanetary Society (BIS).He was also a member of the International Academy of Astronautics (IAA) and an honorary member of the Japanese Rocket Society.