Wernher von Braun

Known for ActingBorn 1912-03-22Died 1977-06-16Wirsitz, Germany [now Wyrzysk, Poland]

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.Read more

Movies & web series

Mars and Beyond

Man and the Moon

Apollo: Missions to the Moon

History 101

Trinity and Beyond: The Atomic Bomb Movie

In Search of Ancient Astronauts

Dark Side of the Moon

Small World

Footprints on the Moon

The Saturn V Story

The Dick Cavett Show

Man in Space

Sirius

Moon Machines

NASA, Nazis and the Space Race

Beyond Tomorrow

Загадки века с Сергеем Медведевым

The Giant Step - Apollo... ...Saturn

Moon Mission

The Challenge of Outer Space