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Wernher von Braun

1912-03-22 Wyrzysk, Poland

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Biografia

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.

Películas

Beyond Tomorrow Himself 2022-10-28
Apollo: Missions to the Moon Self - Rocket Scientist, NASA (archive footage) 2019-07-07
The Saturn V Story Himself 2014-04-13
Sirius Self (archive footage) 2013-04-23
Opération Lune Self (archive footage) 2002-10-16
Trinity and Beyond: The Atomic Bomb Movie Self (archive footage) 1995-09-29
In Search of Ancient Astronauts 1973-01-05
Footprints On The Moon Narrator 1969-10-02
Disneyland: Mars and Beyond Himself 1957-12-04
Man and the Moon 1955-12-28