Wernher von Braun
Known For
Acting
Born
1912-03-22 in Wirsitz, Germany [now Wyrzysk, Poland]
Died
1977-06-16
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.
Most Known For
The Dick Cavett Show
as Self - Guest
History 101
as Self (archive footage)
Sirius
as Self (archive footage)
Small World
as Self
Moon Machines
as Self
Apollo: Missions to the Moon
as Self - Rocket Scientist, NASA (archive footage)
Trinity and Beyond: The Atomic Bomb Movie
as Self (archive footage)
Dark Side of the Moon
as Self (archive footage)
Загадки века с Сергеем Медведевым
as Self (archive footage)
Man and the Moon
as Self
Footprints On The Moon
as Narrator
The Saturn V Story
as Self (archive footage)
Man in Space
as Self
Mars and Beyond
as Himself
Beyond Tomorrow
as Himself
In Search of Ancient Astronauts
NASA, Nazis and the Space Race
as Self