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.
Filmography
all 18
self 16
Movies 13
TV Shows 5
Narrator 1
Beyond Tomorrow (2022)
History 101 (2020)
Apollo: Missions to the Moon (2019)
Sirius (2013)
Dark Side of the Moon (2002)
Trinity and Beyond: The Atomic Bomb Movie (1995)
Footprints On The Moon (1969)
The Dick Cavett Show (1968)
The Johns Hopkins Science Review
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Known For
Acting
Gender
Male
Birthday
1912-03-23
Deathday
1977-06-16 (65 years old)
Birth Name
Wernher Magnus Maximilian Freiherr von Braun
Birth Place
Wyrzysk, Poland
Religion
Lutheranism
Children
Margrit von Braun
Father
Magnus von Braun
Mother
Emmy von Braun
Siblings
Sigismund von Braun, Magnus von Braun
Citizenships
United States of America, West , German Empire, Weimar Republic, Nazi
Residences
Alexandria · Huntsville, United States of America, Washington · D.C., United States, Peenemünde · Berlin,
Also Known As
Werner Von Braun
Awards
National Medal of Science, Wilhelm Exner Medal, National Aviation Hall of Fame, Werner von Siemens Ring, Elliott Cresson Medal, Maxwell Lecture, Knight's Cross of the War Merit Cross with Swords, Honorary doctor of the Technical University of Berlin, International Space Hall of Fame, Rudolf-Diesel-Medaille, NASA Distinguished Service Medal, Dr. Robert H. Goddard Memorial Trophy, Langley Gold Medal, Knight Commander's Cross of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of
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