Wernher von Braun
- Known for
- Acting
- Born
- March 22, 1912
- Died
- June 16, 1977 (aged 65)
- Birthplace
- Wirsitz, Germany [now Wyrzysk, Poland]
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
Photos
Filmography
NASA, Nazis and the Space Race
Movie · as Self (archive footage)
Hitler's Cosmic Conspiracy: UFOs, Alien Artifacts and the Nazi War Machine
Movie · as Self (archive footage)
Beyond Tomorrow
Movie · as Himself
History 101
TV · as Self (archive footage) · 1 ep
Apollo: Missions to the Moon
Movie · as Self - Rocket Scientist, NASA (archive footage)
Загадки века с Сергеем Медведевым
TV · as Self (archive footage) · 1 ep
The Saturn V Story
Movie · as Self (archive footage)
Sirius
Movie · as Self (archive footage)
Moon Machines
TV · as Self · 6 eps
Dark Side of the Moon
Movie · as Self (archive footage)
Trinity and Beyond: The Atomic Bomb Movie
Movie · as Self (archive footage)
In Search of Ancient Astronauts
Movie
Footprints on the Moon
Movie · as Narrator
The Dick Cavett Show
TV · as Self - Guest · 1 ep
The Giant Step - Apollo... ...Saturn
Movie
Moon Mission
Movie
Small World
TV · as Self · 1 ep
Mars and Beyond
Movie · as Himself
Man and the Moon
Movie · as Self
Man in Space
Movie · as Self
The Challenge of Outer Space
Movie
The Wonderful World of Disney
TV · as Self · 1 ep