The lower floor of the war on the war on the Alawite side was disorganized and dark in one area that the employees called “The Dungeon”, and last year, the new supervisor of the building decided to wipe it.
For weeks, he withdrew the garbage left by the former tenants-old air conditioners, paint cans, old elevators and rolled carpets-through the winding hallway with their low ceilings to garbage.
Almost in the middle of the road during the job, spy on an old box on the shelf next to the sheet of leaves. Read the poster:
“Willie Lee’s remains. Holocaust 26 June 1969”
This was not the thing you throw in the garbage.
The Super brought his discovery to the Chairman of the Cooperation Board, Dawn Nadeau. She had a lot of cooperative work to attend-a lounge renewal, an alternative to the roof-but to act in the ashes of someone who was new to it.
“We needed to deal with the remains as professionally as possible,” said Mrs. Nadu, the brand counselor. “So I started an attempt to find out who was this and who belongs to him.”
I searched for records and did not find any references to anyone called me after he lived in the building on Street 67. The calls to Gerayi were not listed on a jar and the funeral house that held the Memorial Service Service puts any information.
But after that, Google named and the date of his death, and was astonished by what I learned. The remains belonged to a man who originated one day “the Prophet of Space Age” – a science writer who was expecting the first human trips outside the Earth.
Insight
Willie Lee was born in Germany in 1906, grew up during World War I and studied at the universities of Berlin and Konigsburg. Although it would be decades before the first man was launched in orbit, Mr. Lee was convinced from an early age that traveling to space was within reach.
As a 20 -year -old student in 1926, Mr. Lee wrote his first book, “A Journey to Space”, which explained to the general public the concept and potential of space and fish. In 1927, he helped establish a “travel society to space”, and its purpose, as he said, “The spread of the idea that the planets was within the reach of humanity, if humanity was only ready to struggle for this goal.”
He employed a young man von braun – the roosque and Aerospace Pioneer – to join society, and the first starts among many cooperation between the two men.
In Berlin in 1930, Mr. Lee presented the liquid fuel missile to a group of aviation engineers.
“I stood about 5 feet, and even when she fed it, it was light enough to raise it with one hand. It could climb about 1500 feet and repeat the parachute,” Mr. Lee recalls in an article in 1968 he wrote to the New York Times. “What, what the engineers wanted to know, was the goal of all this?
The rise of the Nazi Party, Mr. Lee, disturbed, and in 1935, anxious about the government’s weapon by the government, fled from Germany. In the end, he ended up in Queens.
In New York, he achieved a livelihood in the first place as a scientific writer, leaving articles and books, including “Ructis: The Future of Traveling Beyond Straphs” in 1944. In that, Mr. Lee reiterated his belief in the possibility of traveling to space: “I would like to emphasize great seriousness on the moon on the moon He is He wrote: “Whether it has any practical value, it is another issue and whether the experiment will have another story.”
Jared S description. Boss, the author of the 2017 biography “Willie Lee: The Prophet of Space Age”, Mr. Lee is one of the architects in that era – a major player in America’s early attempts to explore space. “In the late fifties of the last century when Sputnik was launched, the person who turned journalists was an expert,” Mr. Boss said in an interview.
In 1951, Mr. Lee participated in the first symposium on traveling to space, said astronomical physicist Neil Diocras Tyson, director of the American Museum of Natural History Hyden Blodarium.
Dr. Tyson said this symposium and annual meetings that followed “led to a series of articles, including many cover stories from 1952 to 1954, which became the first exposure to the public and awareness of a possible future in space.”
In the very true sense, Willie Lee helped present the idea of traveling to space to the American public.
In the 1952 article in the Galaxy Science Fitch, expecting the shape of the first inhabited spacecraft, almost a decade ago:
The first space ship, as I said again and again, will not go literally anywhere. It will be a vertical takeoff from the base, followed by tilt in the direction of an explanation until the ship travels along the missing pieces around the ground. The captain will remain “awake” until all service tests are completed, the monitoring program has been implemented, or even everyone is bored. Then it will fall again, trying to make it closer to the base as possible.
Nearly nine years, in April 1961, Yuri Gagarin did so, to become the first man in space. He set out from Kazakhstan now, flew east around the earth and fell in the Saratov area of Russia after 108 minutes per orbit.
The space race was also installed, Mr. Lee continued to publish books and articles that translated complex astronomical physics and missile concepts for a wider audience. Congress has been cited its work, and since then its predictions have been achieved at the time at the time-spent below the sea between Britain and France, the rise of commercial solar energy and wind energy-. Walt Disney rented him as a consultant at any time a rocket ship or a spacecraft was built in Disneyland.
He spent the rest of his life living in Jackson Heights, Queens, with his wife Olga, and two daughters. He wrote hundreds of articles and dozens of books, and inspires countless scholars in the future and even astronauts.
“I think all Apollo’s astronauts felt that they were in gratitude and night for me and the teams that put this matter, and that they go as representatives of humanity,” said Carter Emerart, Director of Calming at the American Museum of Natural History.
On June 24, 1969, while he was preparing to travel to Houston to be a guest in NASA during the launch of APollo 11, Mr. Lee died a heart attack in Queens. On July 16, the historical space distance from Cape Capeeral was launched with three astronauts: Buzz aldrin, Neil Armstrong and Michael Collins. By the time Mr. Armstrong took the giant leap, all the remaining man who expected was the ashes.
After a few months, an editorial in the Journal of Popular Mechanics was saddened by the loss of Mr. Lee: “The man who convinced the world, and the Americans in particular, this man can go to the moon, seeing his prophecy is fulfilled for three and a half weeks.”
On the other side of the moon, A hole was named in his honor. On the floor, it will be sent to the basement, forget in a box.
Perfect place for rest
Mr. Lee has no living grandchildren. His younger sister, his wife, daughter, and granddaughter, were all dead, so it was difficult at first for Mrs. Nadu to confirm that the ash was definitely for him.
But the deepest diving in the US files of Colombarium, which is now called Frish Bond Girale in the Middle Village, New York, checks that the definition number on the box, 136874 was already a match with Willie Lee. Paper works are listed by the age of the deceased as 62 years old, and closer to him than relatives such as Olga Lee and his occupation of the “space world”.
Before finding the ashes, Mrs. Nadu did not think a lot about traveling to space-between her job, volunteering, and the Cooperation Council and teenage education, there was a lot to keep it busy on the ground. Now, you think about it all the time.
Mrs. Nadu discussed the discovery with her daughters, Abeel and Julia. It was important to Julia, a student of molecular engineering at the University of Chicago, who attended a space camp when she was twelve years old. After the conversation, Mrs. Nadu was designed to do it by Mr. Lee.
She said, “I thought, we might never know how to get here, but we can at least make sure that it ends in the right place.”
I sought people who will have ideas for a suitable final place. Margaret a. Vikambe, Amina and Head of the Space History Department at the Air and National Space Museum, is connected to the New York Expatriate Club or the American Institute of Aviation and Space Scholars. But then, Mrs. Nado saw the famous mechanics editorial, and the answer was in black and white:
“Popular mechanics believe that it will be appropriate and sound honoring this great man by grabbing his ashes on the moon.”
“When I read that, I knew that we had to enter it somehow,” said Ms. Nado. Mr. Lee, after years at the basement, should spend the rest of the eternity among the stars.
Mr. Buss, biography of the biography, agreed to: “If this container is authentic, it deserves to go to space,” and he is wondering if Elon Musk’s Spacex may deal with this issue.
Mrs. Nadu now has her own space mission, and it is not clear how or whether she will complete her. A company said it would have sent ashes to space, but the average cost on its website was 12,500 dollars.
Currently, the box that bears the remaining body of the Earth’s Earth’s body remains in cooperation, where he was placed in the supervisor workshop, Michael Hardlofic, who discovered it for the first time in the basement.
Mr. Hardlovich said: “I think about the life of this whole person, regardless of his identity or what they have accomplished, it is an important life and now they are here in this box.”
He carried it in my hands, the old box, about the size of a gallon of the paint. Inside, the remainder of Willie Lee, until now, shines over and over again the sun.
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