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Wernher von Braun
Also Known As: Werner Von Braun
Birth Date
March 22, 1912
Death Date
June 16, 1977
(passed away at 65)
Place of Birth
Wirsitz, Germany [now Wyrzysk, Poland]
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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.
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The Dick Cavett Show
Self - Guest
1968 • 1 episode
History 101
Self (archive footage)
2020 • 1 episode
Small World
Self
1958 • 1 episode
Apollo: Missions to the Moon
Self - Rocket Scientist, NASA (archive footage)
2019
NASA, Nazis and the Space Race
Self (archive footage)
2025
Trinity and Beyond: The Atomic Bomb Movie
Self (archive footage)
1995
Sirius
Self (archive footage)
2013
Moon Machines
Self
2008 • 6 episodes
Mars and Beyond
Himself
1957
Загадки века с Сергеем Медведевым
Self (archive footage)
2016 • 1 episode
Dark Side of the Moon
Self (archive footage)
2002
Man and the Moon
Self
1955
Man in Space
Self
1955
Beyond Tomorrow
Himself
2022
Footprints on the Moon
Narrator
1969
The Saturn V Story
Self (archive footage)
2014
In Search of Ancient Astronauts
1973
The Giant Step - Apollo... ...Saturn
1966
Moon Mission
1963
The Challenge of Outer Space
1955