词条 | David Baker (author) |
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Dr David Baker (born 1944) is a British space scientist and a prolific author. He first who first visited the USA in 1962[1] and returned to work for NASA on the Gemini, Apollo and Space Shuttle programs between 1965 and 1984[2] as a Mission Planning and Analysis Department. He was present at NASA during Apollo 13 in 1970. He returned to the UK in 1984 and set up an independent consultancy helping countries around the world including India to develop and integrate commercial space technologies for their national space programmes. He now works as a journalist, writer and an author. He has published thousands of article, more than 100 books and contributed to many radio and TV documentaries about space missions in the US and Europe. In the past, he has edited the Aerospace Review, Jane’s Aircraft Upgrades and Jane’s Space Directory. He is a fellow of the British Interplanetary Society and since 2011 he has been the editor of the BIS's journal - Spaceflight. Bibliography
References1. ^{{Cite web|url=http://www.skyatnightmagazine.com/news/interview-former-nasa-scientist-david-baker|title=Interview: former NASA scientist David Baker {{!}} BBC Sky at Night Magazine|website=www.skyatnightmagazine.com|access-date=2019-01-15}} 2. ^{{Cite news|url=https://www.wired.com/2011/04/human-spaceflight-david-baker/|title=Human Spaceflight's 50th: The Glorious Past and Uncertain Future|last=Grossman|first=Lisa|date=2011-04-12|work=Wired|access-date=2019-01-15|issn=1059-1028}} Additional sourcesIn 2018, he published a [https://astrotalkuk.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/David-Baker.pdf short potted history] summarising his career and included a list of 110 books published at that time. David Baker makes regular appearances as a guest on the London based [https://www.interplanetary.org.uk/ Interplanetary podcast]. {{catimprove|date=February 2019}}{{DEFAULTSORT:Baker, David}} 3 : 1944 births|Living people|British space scientists |
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