Orbital

Acknowledgments

I’m very fortunate to have a number of people who have supported my interest in space exploration by offering their time, advice and encouragement. In no particular order: My father (for taking me to my first Space Shuttle launch), the people at NASA Social, John Spencer, Story Musgrave, Jack Horkheimer, Ed Lu, T.J. Gockel, SpaceX, Ting Ho, Kenneth Montgomery, Paul Hynek, Brian Brushwood, Gerry Ohrstrom, Jack Latona, Peter J. Wacks, Mark Tseng, JPL, Richard Friedman, Justin Robert Young and the nice folks at the McDonnell Douglas DC–X program who sent an inquiring kid a press package about their project and fired his imagination with the possibility of reusable spacecraft.