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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(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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Hortencio Barbosa Willy Böckl (1893–1975), Austrian world champion figure skater Willy Bocklant (1941–1985), Belgian road racing cyclist Willy Bogner Sr. (1909–1977)...
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German Captain Ludwig Freiherr von Stein zu Lausnitz [de], as described by Willy Ley in the book The Lungfish and the Unicorn (1941). Von Stein was ordered...
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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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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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Manning, Nathan Schachner, and others.: 73 Pendray corresponded with Willy Ley of the German rocket society, Verein für Raumschiffahrt, and visited him...
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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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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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Larry on Three's Company. John Leguizamo (born 1964), comedian, actor. Willy Ley (1906–1969), space writer and theorist. Peter Anthony Libasci (born 1951)...
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and Willy Ley after their participation as expert advisers for Fritz Lang's early science fiction film Frau im Mond (The Woman in the Moon). Ley and Hermann...
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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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Earth by himself p. 315: A Planet Called Earth by himself Science writer Willy Ley praised Gamow's book, describing it as an "admittedly rare ... book which...
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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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world." In his 1955 book, Salamanders and other Wonders, science author Willy Ley determined that the Mkodo tribe, Carl Liche, and the Madagascar man-eating...
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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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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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height and course for the whole distance over which it could be observed. Willy Ley discussed a sighting in Paris on 5 July 1852 "for which sworn statements...
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the spelling he was familiar with from The Conquest of Space (1949) by Willy Ley and Chesley Bonestell, presuming that the "J" form is the German rendering...
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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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