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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.
Wernher von Braun became the first director of the MSFC. The MSFC's development team was formed by American engineers from the Redstone Arsenal and 118 German migrants who came from Peenemünde through Operation Paperclip. [43] Von Braun worked with Operation Paperclip to get scientists from his team to the United States.
A group of 104 rocket scientists at Fort Bliss, Texas. Operation Paperclip was a secret United States intelligence program in which more than 1,600 German scientists, engineers, and technicians were taken from the former Nazi Germany to the U.S. for government employment after the end of World War II in Europe, between 1945 and 1959.
Rocket scientist Hermann Oberth worked as an advisor on this movie. He had originally intended to build a working rocket for use in the film, but time and technical constraints prevented this from happening. The film was popular among the rocket scientists in Wernher von Braun's circle at the Verein für Raumschiffahrt (VfR).
Born Alvin Scott Beach, he appeared in numerous motion pictures, most notably as a German scientist patterned after Wernher von Braun in The Right Stuff. His deep voice was often heard in films. He once said that director George Lucas liked his voice and often used him in his films, beginning with THX 1138. [1]
The New York Times designated Operation Crossbow a "critic's pick" by film reviewer Bosley Crowther, who wrote that the film "is a beauty that no action-mystery-spy movie fan should miss", "part fact and part fiction", and a "grandly engrossing and exciting melodrama of wartime espionage, done with stunning documentary touches in a tight, tense ...
He produced a biopic of Wernher von Braun, I Aim at the Stars (1960), directed by J. Lee Thompson, [14] and the fantasy The 3 Worlds of Gulliver (1961), starring Kerwin Matthews. [ 15 ] Mysterious Island (1961), directed by Cy Endfield was an adaptation of the Jules Verne novel, with Harryhausen effects.