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Wernher von Braun
Acting
22 Mar 1912
† 16 Jun 1977
Wirsitz, Germany [now Wyrzysk, Poland]
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,...
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Wernher von Braun's Movies
72%
Trinity and Beyond: The Atomic Bomb Movie
29 Sept 1995
70%
Dark Side of the Moon
16 Oct 2002
73%
Apollo: Missions to the Moon
07 Jul 2019
62%
Sirius
23 Apr 2013
67%
Man in Space
09 Mar 1955
66%
The Saturn V Story
13 Apr 2014
77%
In Search of Ancient Astronauts
05 Jan 1973
100%
Mars and Beyond
04 Dec 1957
40%
NASA, Nazis and the Space Race
14 Jun 2025
20%
Beyond Tomorrow
28 Oct 2022
40%
Footprints On The Moon
02 Oct 1969
0%
Man and the Moon
28 Dec 1955
