James R. Hansen (born 1952) is a professor of history at
Auburn University in Alabama.
His book ''From the Ground Up'' won the History Book Award of the
American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics
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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
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in 2005.
Biography
Hansen is from
Fort Wayne, Indiana
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.
He received his B.A. from
Indiana University
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.
He also received his M.A. and Ph.D. from
Ohio State University
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.
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, received the American Astronautical Society's Prize for Astronautical Literature.
* ''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). The book was awarded the Herbert Warren Wind Award by the United States Golf Association as the best golf book of the year.
;Science:
* ''The Bird Is on the Wing: Aerodynamics and the Progress of the American Airplane'' (Texas A&M University Press, 2003)
;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
* ''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''
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Living people
American science writers
American historians
Indiana University alumni
Ohio State University alumni
1952 births
Auburn University faculty