Correspondence: Count von Braun.

Published letter, printed over Ley’s name (pp.154–156), in this issue of the Journal of the British Interplanetary Society, Vol. 6, No. 5, recalling Ley’s first meeting with a teenage Wernher von Braun at a Verein für Raumschiffahrt gathering in 1929, his subsequent election to the VfR board, and the founding of Peenemünde.

The wry title answers a mistaken “Count” attribution that Ley traces to von Braun’s father, Magnus von Braun, a Freiherr (baron) and member of the Deutsche Adels-Gesellschaft who served as Reichsminister of Agriculture in 1932. The same issue carries A. V. Cleaver’s paper “Interplanetary Flight: Is the Rocket the Only Answer?” (p.128).