Name
Wernher von Braun
Known For
Acting
Birthday
1912-03-22
Deathday
1977-06-16 (65 years old)
Place of Birth
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
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National Geographic's riveting effort recounts all 12 crewed missions using only archival ...
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"Trinity and Beyond" is an unsettling yet visually fascinating documentary presenting the ...
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A French documentary or, one might say more accurately, a mockumentary, by director Willia...
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With a combination of documentary footage and animation, the science and history of rocket...
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In 1961, no one believed President Kennedy’s pledge to put a man on the moon by the end ...
- 1995 Trinity and Beyond: The Atomic Bomb Movie as Self (archive footage)
- 1957 Mars and Beyond as Himself
- 2022 Beyond Tomorrow as Himself
- 2002 Dark Side of the Moon as Self (archive footage)
- 2019 Apollo: Missions to the Moon as Self - Rocket Scientist, NASA (archive footage)
- 1955 Man and the Moon as Self
- 1969 Footprints on the Moon as Narrator
- 1973 In Search of Ancient Astronauts
- 2014 The Saturn V Story as Self (archive footage)
- 2013 Sirius as Self (archive footage)
- 2025 NASA, Nazis and the Space Race as Self (archive footage)
- 1955 Man in Space as Self
- 1966 The Giant Step - Apollo... ...Saturn
- 1963 Moon Mission
- 1955 The Challenge of Outer Space
- 2025 Hitler's Cosmic Conspiracy: UFOs, Alien Artifacts and the Nazi War Machine as Wernher von Braun: Self - Aerospace Engineer
- 2008 Moon Machines ( 6 episodes ) as Self
- 1968 The Dick Cavett Show ( 1 episode ) as Self - Guest
- 2020 History 101 ( 1 episode ) as Self (archive footage)
- 1958 Small World ( 1 episode ) as Self
- 2016 Загадки века с Сергеем Медведевым ( 1 episode ) as Self (archive footage)
