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Willy Ley
(left to right) Heinz Haber, Wernher von Braun, Willy Ley
Born
Willy Otto Oskar Ley
(1906-10-02)October 2, 1906
Berlin, German Empire
Died
June 24, 1969(1969-06-24) (aged 62)
Jackson Heights, New York City, US[1]
Other names
Robert Wiley
Occupation(s)
science writer and historian of science
Spouse
Olga
Children
daughters Sandra and Xenia
Notes
US citizen (1944) Worldcon Guest of Honor (1953)
Willy Otto Oskar Ley (October 2, 1906 – June 24, 1969) was a German and American science writer and proponent of cryptozoology. The crater Ley on the far side of the Moon is named in his honor.
^"Willy Ley Collection" (PDF). National Air and Space Archives. NASM archives.
Willy Otto Oskar Ley (October 2, 1906 – June 24, 1969) was a German and American science writer and proponent of cryptozoology. The crater Ley on the far...
play did not meet with success and closed after a run of eight weeks. WillyLey was a German rocket engineer who had immigrated to the United States in...
(Verein für Raumschiffahrt or VfR), co-founded by Valier, and worked with WillyLey in his liquid-fueled rocket motor tests in conjunction with others such...
measured in excess of 100 °C in the daytime, writing to rocket expert WillyLey: "Either you believe in me and learn, or you will be treated as the enemy...
but removed as a member in 2006. Other closely related members include WillyLey (1976), a German-American science writer, and Hermann Oberth (1976), a...
Space is from the 1949 nonfiction book The Conquest of Space, written by WillyLey and illustrated by Chesley Bonestell. George Pal had hired Bonestall to...
Tomorrowland), was narrated partly by Kimball and also by such scientists WillyLey, Heinz Haber, and Wernher von Braun, as well as Dick Tufeld of Lost in...
Malaysian race car driver Terry Ley (born 1947), American baseball player Thomas John Ley, Australian politician WillyLey (1906–1969), science writer Alternate...
Earth Abides by George R. Stewart Non-fiction: The Conquest of Space by WillyLey & Chesley Bonestell 1952 Fiction: Fancies and Goodnights by John Collier...
The Conquest of Space is a 1949 speculative science book written by WillyLey and illustrated by Chesley Bonestell. The book contains a portfolio of paintings...
Iran. Princeton University Press. p. xix-xxi. L. Sprague de Camp and WillyLey, Lands Beyond, Rinehart & Co., New York, 1952. L. Sprague de Camp, Lost...
placed in a geostationary orbit. In the 1950s, Wernher von Braun and WillyLey, writing in Colliers Magazine, updated the idea, in part as a way to stage...
story by Arthur C. Clarke inspired by the German drive to wonder-weapons. WillyLey, "V-2: Rocket Cargo Ship" Astounding Science Fiction, May 1945, repr....
Disneyland producer Ward Kimball had rocket scientists Wernher von Braun, WillyLey, and Heinz Haber serve as technical consultants during the original design...
natural or artificial. Tombaugh denied the alleged discovery in a letter to WillyLey, and the October 1955 issue of Popular Mechanics magazine reported: Professor...
book The Conquest of Space (1949), produced in collaboration with author WillyLey. Bonestell's last work in Hollywood was contributing special effects art...
satellites in specific orbital ranges difficult for many generations. WillyLey predicted in 1960 that "In time, a number of such accidentally too-lucky...
United States Submarine Force Museum in Groton, Connecticut. Rocket expert WillyLey speculated in 1954 that using small cruise missiles to rapidly deliver...
review column by anthologist Groff Conklin, which ran until 1955, and a WillyLey science column. Gold sought to implement high-quality printing techniques...
what may not have been done, or else what could possibly go wrong. — WillyLey, 1968 A countdown is a carefully devised set of procedures ending with...
Bernard Heuvelmans Ralph Izzard John Keel Aleksandr Kondratov Grover Krantz WillyLey Roy Mackal Vladimir Markotic Jeffrey Meldrum John R. Napier Michael Newton...
rat with an extremely elongated snout and a long, naked, scaly tail. WillyLey wrote in 1964 that the Cuban solenodon was, if not extinct, among "the...