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This person wrote an unpublished novel in which a Martian utopia is run by a leader called “the Elon” while a technical consultant for Disney; during that period, this person demonstrated scientific models on three TV films with cute animations by Ward Kimball. Mort Stahl is often credited with a facetious subtitle for a 1960 biopic about this person titled I Aim at the Stars. A character based on this person is told he has an “astonishingly good idea” when he suggests that every surviving man will have to do (*) “prodigious service” for the human race. That character based on this person interrupts a discussion of a “mineshaft gap” by exclaiming “Mein Führer! I can walk!” For 10 points, the character of Dr. Stranglove is a parody of what Nazi rocketry expert? ■END■
ANSWER: Wernher Von Braun [or Wernher Magnus Maximilian Freiherr Von Braun; prompt on Dr. Strangelove by asking “which real-life person is being parodied?”] (Mort Stahl is supposed to have quipped that I Aim at the Stars should be subtitled “but sometimes I hit London.”)
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