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person_profile-Wernher von Braun

Wernher von Braun Died at age: 65

Actor | Producer

Fullname:

Wernher von Braun

Date of Birth:

Mar 22, 1912

Country of birth:

Poland

Died:

Jun 16, 1977

Biography of

Wernher von Braun

    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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Wernher von Braun

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Filmography of

Wernher von Braun

Found 10 Movies in total

Beyond Tomorrow

Himself ( Actor )

... 2022

Apollo: Missions to the Moon

Self - Rocket Scientist, NASA (archive footage) ( Actor )

... 2019

The Saturn V Story

Himself ( Actor )

... 2014

Sirius

Self (archive footage) ( Actor )

... 2013

Dark Side of the Moon

Self (archive footage) ( Actor )

... 2002

Trinity and Beyond: The Atomic Bomb Movie

Self (archive footage) ( Actor )

... 1995

... 1973

Footprints On The Moon

Narrator ( Actor )

... 1969

... 1957

... 1955