| Stephen Baxter is a trained engineer who took a first-class honors degree in mathematics at Cambridge University. He also has a doctorate in aeroengineering research from Southampton University, and for his degree, worked with Rolls Royce Ltd. and at the Royal Aircraft Establishment, UK. He has been published in a monograph from Springer-Verlag and has contributed to a number of technical journals. In his research for Voyage, the author visited NASA launch centers, viewed a shuttle launch, and interviewed NASA staff, including a mission controller and a space shuttle astronaut. He researched technical journals from the 1960s, histories of NASA and its missions, technical material on spacecraft and boosters, scientific studies of Mars, and biographies. This author has been recommended by 32 other readers. | |
|
About Author