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of the National Air and Space Museum, the Editorial Advisory Board of the
Smithsonian Institution Press, the Advisory Board for the Archives of Aerospace
Exploration at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, the Museum
Advisory Board of the U.S. Space and Rocket Center in Huntsville, Alabama,
and the board of directors of the Space Restoration Society. He is a past vicepresident
of the board of directors of the Virginia Air and Space Museum and
Hampton Roads History Center in Hampton, Virginia.
Robert G. Kennedy, III, PE, took Heinlein’s advice about a liberal education
to heart. He is a registered professional mechanical engineer (robotics specialty
for military, nuclear, and industrial applications) in Tennessee and California.
He minored in Soviet studies and holds a special master of arts in national
security studies, and speaks, reads, and writes Russian, Latin and, to a lesser
degree, Arabic and Classical Greek. In 1994, he was selected as the American
Society of Mechanical Engineers Congressional Fellow for that year, working
for the Subcommittee on Space in the United States House of Representatives.
Also in 1994, he was invited to present Robert A Heinlein: The Competent Man at
the Library of Congress. In 1997, he published, manufactured and distributed
the Russian CD-ROM 40th Anniversary of Sputnik: Russians in Space. Also in
1997-1999, he served on the Where To? panel in the inaugural issues of The
Heinlein Journal published by The Heinlein Society. He is an amateur military
historian, published artist and writer on strategic afairs in the Journal of the
British Interplanetary Society among other venues, and past chair of the American
Society of Mechanical Engineer’s (ASME) Technology & Society Division. He
currently resides with his spouse and numerous cats under his own vine and fg
tree in the Manhattan Project city of Oak Ridge, Tennessee.
Bettyann Kevles is a lecturer in the history department at Yale University. She
writes about science, technology, and popular culture. Her most recent book,
Almost Heaven: The Story of Women in Space, (paperback revised edition MIT
Press 2006), is a cross-cultural exploration of the lives and ambitions of women
who have traveled into orbit. During 2000, she held the Charles A. Lindbergh
Chair in Space History at the Smithsonian’s National Air and Space Museum.
Almost Heaven was selected as the best science book of 2003 by the American
Library Association, and in 2005 she was awarded the Educator’s Award for the
book by Women in Aerospace. Before joining the faculty at Yale, she lived in
Pasadena, California, where she wrote a regular science column and science
book reviews for the Los Angeles Times, taught at the Art Center College of
Design, and became an active member of the Planetary Society.
Sylvia K. Kraemer served as NASA Chief Historian from 1983-1990 and as
NASA’s Director of Policy Development, Director of Interagency Relations, and
Chair of Inventions and Contributions Board from 1990-2004. She obtained