Wernher von Braun

Also Known As: Werner 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.

Department: Acting

Place of Birth: Wyrzysk, Poland

Adult: No

Birthday: March 22, 1912

Age: 113 years old

Gender: Male

Deathday: June 16, 1977

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Known For:

Trinity and Beyond: The Atomic Bomb Movie
Disneyland: Mars and Beyond
Beyond Tomorrow
Dark Side of the Moon
Apollo: Missions to the Moon
Man and the Moon
Footprints On The Moon
In Search of Ancient Astronauts
The Saturn V Story
Sirius