Willy Ley
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Willy Ley, born in Berlin, Germany, in 1906, later became an American science writer. In Germany he popularized Oberth's work.
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Willy Ley studied zoology and other sciences before taking an interest in rocketry. His first book, published in 1926, popularized Hermann Oberth. A founding member of the German spaceflight society, he advised filmmaker Fritz Lang, who was producing a pioneering space fiction film in 1929. To escape the Nazis, Ley emigrated in 1935 to the United States, where he became a famous science writer and space travel promoter.
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National Air and Space Museum, Smithsonian Institution
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SI 2006-26076
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