Wernher von Braun

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

The Dick Cavett Show

History 101

Trinity and Beyond: The Atomic Bomb Movie

Загадки века с Сергеем Медведевым

Apollo: Missions to the Moon

Dark Side of the Moon

Moon Machines

The Saturn V Story

All Movies (15)

• NASA, Nazis and the Space Race2025 · as Self
• Beyond Tomorrow2022 · as Himself
• Apollo: Missions to the Moon2019 · as Self - Rocket Scientist, NASA (archive footage)
• The Saturn V Story2014 · as Self (archive footage)
• Sirius2013 · as Self (archive footage)
• Dark Side of the Moon2002 · as Self (archive footage)
• Trinity and Beyond: The Atomic Bomb Movie1995 · as Self (archive footage)
• In Search of Ancient Astronauts1973
• Footprints on the Moon1969 · as Narrator
• The Giant Step - Apollo... ...Saturn1966
• Moon Mission1963
• Mars and Beyond1957 · as Himself
• Man and the Moon1955 · as Self
• Man in Space1955 · as Self
• The Challenge of Outer Space1955

All TV Shows (5)

• History 1012020 · as Self (archive footage)
• Загадки века с Сергеем Медведевым2016 · as Self (archive footage)
• Moon Machines2008 · as Self
• The Dick Cavett Show1968 · as Self - Guest
• Small World1958 · as Self