Willy Ley
Willy Ley
Willy Otto Oskar Leywas a German-American science writer, spaceflight advocate, and historian of science who helped to popularize rocketry, spaceflight, and natural history in both Germany and the United States. The crater Ley on the far side of the Moon is named in his honor...
NationalityGerman
ProfessionWriter
Date of Birth2 October 1906
CountryGermany
space trying pay
Why should we try for space travel? It cannot be a substance of any kind that can be expected to pay. It can only be something intangible, not involving haulage, which is at the same time more valuable. There is something like that: Knowledge.
dream jobs future
The younger generation of rocket engineers is just beginning. They are of the new generation to which space travel is not going to be a dream of the future but an everyday job with everyday worries in which they will be engaged.
space giants remember
The point to remember is that a giant leap into space can be a giant leap toward peace down below.
ideas rivers water
The study of an idea is, of necessity, the story of many things. Ideas, like large rivers, never have just one source. Just as the water of a river near its mouth, in its final form, is composed largely of many tributaries, so an idea, in its final form, is composed largely of later additions.
ideas rivers source
Ideas, like large rivers, never have just one source.
composed final largely later near
Just as the water of a river near its mouth, in its final form, is composed largely of many tributaries, so an idea, in its final form, is composed largely of later additions.