Interview with Space Historian Robert Zimmerman

For anyone interested, there is a slashdot-style interview (i.e you
ask the questions) with Robert Zimmerman going on this week at
SciScoop (www.sciscoop.com). For those who don't know who he is, here
you go:

"Provide human beings with the necessary tools and supplies and they
can go anywhere." So declared Robert Zimmerman, in his book Leaving
Earth: Space Stations, Rival Superpowers, and the Quest for
Interplanetary Travel.

Zimmerman has been a contributing editor to Astronomy Magazine, and
regularly writes on space, science, technology, and culture for Ad
Astra, Invention & Technology, Natural History, The Wall Street
Journal, and many other magazines and publications. In addition to
"Leaving Earth", Zimmerman is the author of Genesis: The Story of
Apollo 8: The First Manned Flight to Another World, and The
Chronological Encyclopedia of Discoveries in Space, a very detailed
reference book on the subject.

Zimmerman has a varied background. He was born and raised in Brooklyn,
and received a B.A. from Brooklyn College and an M.A. (History/Film)
from New York University. Before getting into science writing he
worked as a producer and screenwriter for a variety of films, and he
has taught film at NYU and other institutions. An avid cave explorer,
he has served as chairman of the New York chapter of the National
Speleological Society as well as president of the New York Chapter of
the National Space Society.

In 2000, Zimmerman was co-winner (with Washington Post science
reporter Kathy Sawyer) of the first David N. Schramm Science
Journalism Award of the American Astronomical Society. He now lives in
Maryland, when he's not away traveling. And, he's agreed to an
interview on SciScoop.

Drog