Willy Ley

Willy Otto Oskar Ley 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.

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In 1955 Walt Disney needed to sell Tomorrowland, a futurist park, so he recruited science experts Wernher von Braun, Willy Ley, and Heinz Haber for three films: Man in Space, Man & the Moon, and Mars & Beyond. It was the first time millions of Americans witnessed animations of a future in space.