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Wernher von Braun
Wirsitz, 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 w…
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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.
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2025
NASA, Nazis and the Space Race
Movie Self (archive footage)
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2022
Beyond Tomorrow
Movie Himself
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2020
History 101
TV show Self (archive footage)
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2019
Apollo: Missions to the Moon
Movie Self - Rocket Scientist, NASA (archive footage)
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2016
Загадки века с Сергеем Медведевым
TV show Self (archive footage)
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2014
The Saturn V Story
Movie Self (archive footage)
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2013
Sirius
Movie Self (archive footage)
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2008
Moon Machines
TV show Self
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2002
Dark Side of the Moon
Movie Self (archive footage)
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1995
Trinity and Beyond: The Atomic Bomb Movie
Movie Self (archive footage)
- 1973
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1969
Footprints on the Moon
Movie Narrator
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1968
The Dick Cavett Show
TV show Self - Guest
- 1966
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1963
Moon Mission
Movie
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1958
Small World
TV show Self
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1957
Mars and Beyond
Movie Himself
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1955
Man and the Moon
Movie Self
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1955
Man in Space
Movie Self
- 1955
