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    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...
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    Vril (section Willy Ley)
    play did not meet with success and closed after a run of eight weeks. Willy Ley was a German rocket engineer who had immigrated to the United States in...
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    (Verein für Raumschiffahrt or VfR), co-founded by Valier, and worked with Willy Ley in his liquid-fueled rocket motor tests in conjunction with others such...
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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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  • up ley in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Ley may refer to: Ley (landform), name for a crag, rock or cliff in the north German language area Ley (crater)...
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  • individual articles were authored by such space notables of the time as Willy Ley, Fred Lawrence Whipple, Dr. Joseph Kaplan, Dr. Heinz Haber, and von Braun...
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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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  • 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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  • 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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