Known For
Acting
Born
Mar 22, 1912
Died
Jun 16, 1977
Place of Birth
Wirsitz, Germany [now Wyrzysk, Poland]
Credits
20 titles
Wernher von Braun
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
Beyond Tomorrow
Himself
History 101
Self (archive footage)
Apollo: Missions to the Moon
Self - Rocket Scientist, NASA (archive footage)
Загадки века с Сергеем Медведевым
Self (archive footage)
The Saturn V Story
Self (archive footage)
Sirius
Self (archive footage)
Moon Machines
Self
Dark Side of the Moon
Self (archive footage)
Trinity and Beyond: The Atomic Bomb Movie
Self (archive footage)
In Search of Ancient Astronauts
Footprints on the Moon
Narrator
The Dick Cavett Show
Self - Guest
The Giant Step - Apollo... ...Saturn
Moon Mission
Small World
Self
Mars and Beyond
Himself
Man and the Moon
Self
Man in Space
Self
The Challenge of Outer Space