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)
The Dick Cavett Show (1968)
The Johns Hopkins Science Review
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GenderMale
Birthday1912-03-23
Deathday1977-06-16 (65 years old)
Birth NameWernher Magnus Maximilian Freiherr von Braun
Birth PlaceWyrzysk, Poland
ReligionLutheranism
ChildrenMargrit von Braun
FatherMagnus von Braun
MotherEmmy von Braun
SiblingsSigismund von Braun, Magnus von Braun
CitizenshipsUnited States of America, West Germany, German Empire, Weimar Republic, Nazi Germany
ResidencesAlexandria · Huntsville, United States of America, Washington · D.C., United States, Peenemünde · Berlin, Germany
Also Known AsWerner Von Braun
AwardsNational 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 Germany
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