Wernher von Braun
- Acting
- March 22, 1912 · Wirsitz, Germany [now Wyrzysk, Poland]
- June 16, 1977
Biography
Werner Von Braun was a rocket pioneer and became the world's leading rocket scientist. Starting his career as a Nazi SS officer in the 1930s, and leading the team that developed what became the V-2 rocket, over 3,000 of which were eventually launched at England and Belgium during the later years of WWII. Following the war, Von Braun and 1600 other Nazi scientists were relocated to the United States via Operation Paperclip. Von Braun went to work for the US Army building early ballistic missiles, but was eventually absorbed into NACA, which became NASA, and became the first Director of the Marshall Space Flight Center, whose primary task was development of the Saturn V heavy-lift rocket system which was used in the NASA manned moon landings in the late 60s-early 70s.
Known for
Filmography
- NASA, Nazis and the Space Race · Self
- Hitler's Cosmic Conspiracy: UFOs, Alien Artifacts and the Nazi War Machine · Self
- Beyond Tomorrow · Self
- History 101 · Self
- Apollo: Missions to the Moon · Self
- Загадки века с Сергеем Медведевым · Self
- The Saturn V Story · Self
- Sirius · Self
- Moon Machines · Self
- Dark Side of the Moon · Self
- Trinity and Beyond: The Atomic Bomb Movie · Self
- In Search of Ancient Astronauts
- Footprints on the Moon · Narrator
- The Dick Cavett Show · Self
- The Giant Step - Apollo... ...Saturn
- Moon Mission
- Small World · Self
- Mars and Beyond · Self
- Man and the Moon · Self, Technical Advisor
- Man in Space · Self
- The Challenge of Outer Space