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I Aim at the Stars is a 1960 West German-American biographical film which tells the story of the life of Wernher von Braun.The film covers his life from his early days in Germany, through Peenemünde, until his work with the U.S. Army, NASA, and the American space program.
Wernher von Braun was born on 23 March 1912, in the small town of Wirsitz in the Province of Posen, Kingdom of Prussia, then German Empire and now Poland. [14]His father, Magnus Freiherr von Braun (1878–1972), was a civil servant and conservative politician; he served as Minister of Agriculture in the federal government during the Weimar Republic.
Footprints on the Moon (full title: Footprints on the Moon: Apollo 11) is a 1969 documentary film covering the flight of Apollo 11 from vehicle rollout to Splashdown and recovery. It was directed by Bill Gibson and produced by Barry Coe (neither of whom have any other credits listed on the IMDb ), and is narrated by Wernher von Braun , with ...
In addition, according to director Byron Haskin, "We had Wernher von Braun on the set all the time...as a technical advisor". [12] [11] Although the budget was $1.5 million, George Pal and Paramount decided not to use stars. [1] Walter Brooke turned down a five-year contract to appear in a soap opera to make the movie. [13]
Project Mars: A Technical Tale is the English translation of an unpublished German-language science fiction novel written by German-American rocket physicist Wernher von Braun (1912–1977) in 1949. Von Braun’s original title for the work was Marsprojekt. Henry J. White (1892–1962) translated it into English. In 2006, almost 30 years after ...
Wernher von Braun, portrayed by Colm Feore (season 1), an aerospace engineer for NASA and former engineer for the Waffen-SS. He served as a mentor to Margo Madison, but is removed from NASA after it is revealed to the public that he knew about the treatment of slave labourers which built the V-2 rocket during the Second World War.
The National Space Institute was a space advocacy group, the first of its kind, established by Wernher von Braun to help maintain the public's support for the United States space program. It has since merged, in 1987, with the L5 Society founded by fans of the Space Colonization and Industrialization work of Gerard K. O'Neill , to become the ...
The results of Wernher von Braun's work on the V-2 for the Nazis at Mittelwerk and Peenemünde is shown, and his final activities within Germany during the last years of the Second World War, as both American and Soviet forces race to capture German rocket technology. However, when the Americans gain the upper hand by recovering von Braun and ...