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Willy Ley

Born 1906
Died 1969

Has also written under the name(s) Robert Willey

Biography

Willy Ley was a German-American science writer and space advocate who helped popularize rocketry and spaceflight in both Germany and the United States. The crater Ley on the far side of the Moon is named in his honor.

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Bibliography

For Your Information series

Titles in series

For Your Information: Collision Course (essay)

For Your Information: The Island of the Stone Heads (essay)

For Your Information: The Orbit of the Vanguard Satellite (essay)

For Your Information: The Supoersonic Bot Fly (essay)

Titles other than in a series

Prelude to Engineering (1941) - essay

Bombing Is a Fine Art (1942) - essay

Death Under the Sea (1942) - essay

The Birth of a Superstition (1942) - essay

The Fatal Coloration (1942) - essay

The End of the Rocket Society (1943) - essay

Torpedo (1944) - essay

Wooden Ships of the Air (1944) - essay

... Giants in Those Days ... (1945) - essay

Science and Truth (1949) - essay

Our Turbulent Atmosphere (1950) - essay

The Invasion by Willy Ley (under the name of Robert Willey) (1950) - novelette

Missiles Over the Sea (1951) - essay

Fireworks (1952) - essay