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 […]
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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 […]
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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 […]