James R. Hansen
American historian (born 1952)
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James R. Hansen (born 1952) is Professor Emeritus of history at Auburn University in Alabama.[1] His book From the Ground Up won the History Book Award of the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics in 1988. For his work, The Wind and Beyond (NASA) - (six-volume series), he was awarded the Eugene Ferguson Prize for Outstanding Reference Work by the Society for the History of Technology in 2005.
| James R. Hansen | |
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James Hansen at the National Air and Space Museum Thursday, Oct. 4, 2018 in Washington, D.C.. | |
| Born | 1952  |
| Occupation | Academic, historian |
| Language | English language |
| Nationality | American |
| Alma mater | Indiana University Fort Wayne Ohio State University |
| Website | |
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Biography
Hansen is from Fort Wayne, Indiana.[1] He received his B.A. from Indiana University Fort Wayne.[1] He also received his M.A. and Ph.D. from Ohio State University.[1] Hansen serves on the Leadership Board of For All Moonkind, Inc., a nonprofit organization committed to developing a legal framework to manage and protect human cultural heritage in space.
Books
Books of non-fiction.
- Biographies
- From the Ground Up: The Autobiography of an Aeronautical Engineer (1988), with Fred E. Weick
- First Man: The Life of Neil A. Armstrong (Simon & Schuster, 2005, 2012), authorized biography of Neil Armstrong,[2] received the American Astronautical Society's Prize for Astronautical Literature.[3]
- Forever Young: A Life of Adventure in Air and Space (2012), with John W. Young
- A Difficult Par: Robert Trent Jones Sr. and the Making of Modern Golf (Gotham Penguin, 2014).[4] The book was awarded the Herbert Warren Wind Award by the United States Golf Association as the best golf book of the year.[5]
- Completely Mad: Tom McClean, John Fairfax, and the Epic Race to Row Solo Across the Atlantic (2023)
- Science
- The Bird Is on the Wing: Aerodynamics and the Progress of the American Airplane (Texas A&M University Press, 2003)[6]
- History
- Engineer In Charge: A History Of The Langley Aeronautical Laboratory, 1917 1958 (1987)
- Truth, Lies, and O-Rings: Inside the Space Shuttle Challenger Disaster (University Press of Florida, 2009), with Allan J. McDonald[7][8][9]
- Enchanted Rendezvous: John C. Houbolt and the Genesis of the Lunar-Orbit Rendezvous Concept (1995), with National Aeronautics and Space Administration, Monograph in Aerospace History series #4
- Spaceflight Revolution: NASA Langley Research Center from Sputnik to Apollo (2013)
Adaptations
- First Man (2018), film directed by Damien Chazelle, based on book First Man: The Life of Neil A. Armstrong
