Willy Ley - Signed 5x7 Photo - Early Space Flight Advocate

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Willy Ley - Signed 5x7 Photo - Early Space Flight Advocate
We are offering a B&W 5x7 glossy photo, signed by Willy Ley in red ink, in the wide white border beneath his image.
Great signed image of
a Ley, who, through his writings and exuberance, did much to inspire manned space travel.
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Bio and Background:
Willy Otto Oskar Ley (October 2, 1906 – June 24, 1969) was a German-American science writer and proponent of cryptozoology. The crater Ley on the far side of the Moon is named in his honor.
Willy Ley was an extremely effective popularizer of the idea of space flight - first in Germany and then in the United States. Ley was born in Berlin. Fluent in German, English, Italian, French, and Russian, he studied astronomy, physics, zoology, and paleontology at the University of Berlin. He finally settled on journalism and received his degree from the University of Konigsberg. Becoming fascinated by the idea of manned space travel as the result of Oberth's books, he was a founding member of the VfR (Society for Spaceship Travel) in 1927. He published several books promoting spaceflight as well as editing the VfR's journal, Die Rakete. Finding the Nazi regime not to his liking, and the opportunity for further private rocket development barred, Ley left Germany in 1935.
In America, he immediately began participating in further rocket experiments with the American Rocket Society, but found that the American public believed the idea of rocket flight was science fiction. So Ley wrote articles and books that dealt with the potential of rocket technology to achieve manned spaceflight within the lifetime of the readers. He was able to explain the basic physics and principles of space travel and rocket technology with unusual clarity and simplicity. He became an American citizen in 1944, and at the same time published one of his most influential works - Rockets: the Future of Travel Beyond the Stratosphere. This went through numerous updates, the final version being Rockets Missiles and Men in Space in 1968. Ley was involved with the most significant efforts to popularize spaceflight in the 1950's: the Collier's magazine and subsequent book series that portrayed man's conquest of space as illustrated by Chesley Bonestell; and the Walt Disney Tomorrowland television series. Ley was everywhere, churning out articles for science fiction and mass market magazines; serving as technical advisor for the Tom Corbett, Space Cadet television series; and designing passenger rockets for plastic model companies. Ley was also one of the leading writers of popular science and science history books, including marvelous accounts of the history of paleontology, astronomy (Watchers of the Skies, and cryptozoology.
Having done more than anyone to convince the American public of the potential for manned spaceflight, Ley died just weeks before the Apollo landing on the moon in 1969. He was survived by his wife, Olga. Generations of his readers were motivated to enter careers not just in rocketry, but in many other fields of science as well.
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