1912-03-22 ( 113 years old ) in 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 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.
Movies
Beyond Tomorrow
2022-10-28
Apollo: Missions to the Moon
2019-07-07
The Saturn V Story
2014-04-13
Sirius
2013-04-23
Dark Side of the Moon
2002-10-16
Trinity and Beyond: The Atomic Bomb Movie
1995-09-29
In Search of Ancient Astronauts
1973-01-05
Footprints On The Moon
1969-10-02
Disneyland: Mars and Beyond
1957-12-04
Man and the Moon
1955-12-28
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