About Me:
I was that kid who was always thinking about rocketing to other planets, whether I was watching "Lost in Space" or playing with my Major Matt Mason action figures. My wagon was a moon rover and my backyard Hadley Rille. I loved the space program and had a childhood full of moon landings, Star Trek and Star Wars (not to mention Jules Verne, H.G. Wells and wonderful 1950s science fiction like War of the Worlds and Forbidden Planet).
In 1991, I purchased my own printing press, lugged it into my garage, and started producing Quest: The History of Spaceflight Quarterly, which eventually propelled me into a job as Chief Historian at NASA's Johnson Space Center, then work running my own space book and memorabilia business, Liftoff Books. I've taught physics labs, was a counselor at Space Camp, coordinated programs at the Michigan Space and Science Center, co-founded and co-organized the Roger That! event in Grand Rapids, and run a store on eBay (NASAWorm), but I've mostly lived a life of research, writing and travel, almost all of it relating to human excursions into outer space (with brief detours into the history of wind energy and Scandinavian polar expeditions).
I live in Michigan with my wife (a cultural anthropologist) and my son (a budding author).
In 1991, I purchased my own printing press, lugged it into my garage, and started producing Quest: The History of Spaceflight Quarterly, which eventually propelled me into a job as Chief Historian at NASA's Johnson Space Center, then work running my own space book and memorabilia business, Liftoff Books. I've taught physics labs, was a counselor at Space Camp, coordinated programs at the Michigan Space and Science Center, co-founded and co-organized the Roger That! event in Grand Rapids, and run a store on eBay (NASAWorm), but I've mostly lived a life of research, writing and travel, almost all of it relating to human excursions into outer space (with brief detours into the history of wind energy and Scandinavian polar expeditions).
I live in Michigan with my wife (a cultural anthropologist) and my son (a budding author).