The Walt Disney - Wernher Von Braun space programs of the 1950s
9 Jul 2012, 04:34 UTC
Mike Wright, chief historian for NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center, writs about the collaboration between Walt Disney and Werner Von Braun in the 1950s on TV programs promoting space travel: The Disney-Von Braun Collaboration and Its Influence on Space Exploration - Moonandback.
Find more resources about the Disney-Von Braun teamwork here and here.
The programs are still informative and entertaining 57 years later. The Man in Space (March 1955) show is available online in four parts from the The Wonderful World of Disney YouTube channel:
See also the Man and the Moon (December, 1955) videos:
/-- Disneyland - 2.14 - Man and the Moon - Part 1 of 4 - YouTube
/-- Disneyland - 2.14 - Man and the Moon - Part 2 of 4 - YouTube
/-- Disneyland - 2.14 - Man and the Moon - Part 3 of 4 - YouTube
/-- Disneyland - 2.14 - Man and the Moon - Part 4 of 4 - YouTube
Mars and Beyond (December, 1957) in here in a single video:
