T. A. Heppenheimer
Thomas A. Heppenheimer was a major space advocate and researcher in planetary science, aerospace engineering, and celestial mechanics. His books are on the recommended reading list of the National Space Society.
Books
- A brief history of flight: from balloons to Mach 3 and beyond
- Colonies in Space
- The coming quake: science and trembling on the California earthquake frontier
- Countdown: A History of Space Flight
- Development of the Space Shuttle, 1972-1981 Smithsonian Institution Press, 2002.
- Facing the Heat Barrier: A History of Hypersonics NASA SP-2007-4232
- First flight: the Wright brothers and the invention of the airplane
- Flight: a history of aviation in photographs
- The man-made sun: the quest for fusion power
- The Real Future Doubleday, 1983.
- The Space Shuttle Decision: NASA's Search for a Reusable Space Vehicle NAS 1.21:4221
- Toward distant suns
- ''Turbulent skies: the history of commercial aviation''