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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
DiedJune 24, 1969(1969-06-24) (aged 62)
Jackson Heights, New York City, US[1]
Other namesRobert Wiley
Occupation(s)science writer and historian of science
SpouseOlga
Childrendaughters 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.

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measured in excess of 100 °C in the daytime, writing to rocket expert Willy Ley: "Either you believe in me and learn, or you will be treated as the enemy...

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but removed as a member in 2006. Other closely related members include Willy Ley (1976), a German-American science writer, and Hermann Oberth (1976), a...

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Space is from the 1949 nonfiction book The Conquest of Space, written by Willy Ley and illustrated by Chesley Bonestell. George Pal had hired Bonestall to...

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Man in Space

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Tomorrowland), was narrated partly by Kimball and also by such scientists Willy Ley, Heinz Haber, and Wernher von Braun, as well as Dick Tufeld of Lost in...

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Malaysian race car driver Terry Ley (born 1947), American baseball player Thomas John Ley, Australian politician Willy Ley (1906–1969), science writer Alternate...

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Browne, Thomas (1646). "Book 3. Chapter 23.". Pseudodoxia Epidemica. Willy Ley (1962). Exotic Zoology. Viking Press. pp. 20–22. OCLC 4049353. Shepard...

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International Fantasy Award

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Earth Abides by George R. Stewart Non-fiction: The Conquest of Space by Willy Ley & Chesley Bonestell 1952 Fiction: Fancies and Goodnights by John Collier...

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The Conquest of Space is a 1949 speculative science book written by Willy Ley and illustrated by Chesley Bonestell. The book contains a portfolio of paintings...

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List of lost lands

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Iran. Princeton University Press. p. xix-xxi. L. Sprague de Camp and Willy Ley, Lands Beyond, Rinehart & Co., New York, 1952. L. Sprague de Camp, Lost...

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Rotating wheel space station

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placed in a geostationary orbit. In the 1950s, Wernher von Braun and Willy Ley, writing in Colliers Magazine, updated the idea, in part as a way to stage...

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Wunderwaffe

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story by Arthur C. Clarke inspired by the German drive to wonder-weapons. Willy Ley, "V-2: Rocket Cargo Ship" Astounding Science Fiction, May 1945, repr....

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Disneyland

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Disneyland producer Ward Kimball had rocket scientists Wernher von Braun, Willy Ley, and Heinz Haber serve as technical consultants during the original design...

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Claimed moons of Earth

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natural or artificial. Tombaugh denied the alleged discovery in a letter to Willy Ley, and the October 1955 issue of Popular Mechanics magazine reported: Professor...

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Chesley Bonestell

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book The Conquest of Space (1949), produced in collaboration with author Willy Ley. Bonestell's last work in Hollywood was contributing special effects art...

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Kessler syndrome

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satellites in specific orbital ranges difficult for many generations. Willy Ley predicted in 1960 that "In time, a number of such accidentally too-lucky...

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Rocket mail

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United States Submarine Force Museum in Groton, Connecticut. Rocket expert Willy Ley speculated in 1954 that using small cruise missiles to rapidly deliver...

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Galaxy Science Fiction

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review column by anthologist Groff Conklin, which ran until 1955, and a Willy Ley science column. Gold sought to implement high-quality printing techniques...

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Countdown

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what may not have been done, or else what could possibly go wrong. — Willy Ley, 1968 A countdown is a carefully devised set of procedures ending with...

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Cryptozoology

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Bernard Heuvelmans Ralph Izzard John Keel Aleksandr Kondratov Grover Krantz Willy Ley Roy Mackal Vladimir Markotic Jeffrey Meldrum John R. Napier Michael Newton...

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Cuban solenodon

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rat with an extremely elongated snout and a long, naked, scaly tail. Willy Ley wrote in 1964 that the Cuban solenodon was, if not extinct, among "the...

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