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How One Mysterious Engineer Ran Human Spaceflight for a Generation
By Michael Cassutt
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY
480 Pages, 6 x 9
Formats: Cloth, PDF, Mobipocket, EPUB, Trade Paper
Cloth, $30.00 (CA $40.00) (US $30.00)
ISBN 9781613737002
Rights: WOR
Chicago Review Press (Aug 2018)
Overview
Reviews
"NASA buffs will be fascinated by this profile of an undervalued figure whose most significant legacy, Cassutt concludes, was at the human level—making 'spaceflight available to all, regardless of citizenship, gender, color, or ethnic background.'" - Publishers WeeklyAuthor Biography
Michael Cassutt is the coauthor of Deke!, the autobiography of astronaut Donald K. "Deke" Slayton, and We Have Capture, the autobiography of astronaut Lt. Gen. Thomas Stafford and the author of three editions of Who's Who in Space (1987, 1993, 1999) as well as five space-themed novels and 30 short stories published in Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction and elsewhere. He has contributed numerous articles to Air & Space/Smithsonian and other publications and has appeared as a space history expert in documentaries for the History Channel. As a television writer and producer, Cassutt has been a member of the writing team of a dozen different series, from Twilight Zone to Max Headroom to The Dead Zone. He is currently co-executive producer of SyFy Channel's series Z Nation and is developing a drama titled Captain Cosmos with George R. R. Martin, of Game of Thrones. He lives in Los Angeles.