The Authors
Ivan D. Ertel has been the Assistant Historian of the Manned
Spacecraft Center since September 1964. Born in Marion, New York (1914)
he received his B.B.A. degree from Georgia State College, Atlanta,
Georgia (1958). He was news editor of Atlanta's Suburban Reporter, East
Point, Georgia, and the Decatur-DeKalb News, Decatur, Georgia
(1954-1957). Before coming to NASA in 1961 he was Press Officer at
Headquarters, Third Army. Ertel established the MSC official news organ,
Space News Roundup, and authored brochures and fact sheets about each
Mercury and Gemini manned flight. He is married and has three
daughters.
Mary Louise Morse has been a Research Associate with the
Department of History of the University of Houston since the fall of
1966. Born in Beverly. Massachusetts, she received her B.S. in Education
from Salem State College, Salem, Massachusetts (1947), and her M.A. in
History from Columbia University (1950). She was a senior editor with
the MIT Press, Cambridge, Massachusetts, before moving to Houston.
