Tag: willie ley
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Did Germans Launch Manned Rocket in 1933?
Was Otto Fischer, brother to German rocket designer Bruno Fischer, first to man a rocket? An article at io9.com relates, “on October 29, 1933, the London Sunday Referee published a report from Rugen, an island in the Baltic Sea, just off the coast of Germany. Someone named Otto Fischer had flown inside a 24-foot steel…
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Retrovision: Air Mail or Rocket Post
A ban on missile research after World War I resulted in development of a large German civilian rocketry program to fill gap. Gerhard Zucker, a German businessman, promoted delivery by Rocket Mail in era of high rocket interest. Zucker unsuccessfully launched rockets filled with post, in both, Germany and Britain in 1933-34, according to Encyclopedia…
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retro-weekend drive-in: disney’s 1955 ‘man in space’
Walt Disney helped sell American public on Space. Man in Space, first of a three-part series in the fifties, proved popular and possibly for its pyrotechnics and inclusion of a multitude of rocket firings! You’ll like this film if you like fireworks! The V-2 rocket and WAC Corporal, two early successful rockets, are covered. “The…