The Authors
Ivan D. Ertel has been a Contract Historian to NASA's Historical
Office since November 1972. He retired from NASA's Johnson Space Center
in June 1972 after serving as the Center's Assistant Historian since
September 1964. Born in Marion, New York (1914) he received his B.B.A.
degree from Georgia State University, Atlanta, Georgia (1958). He was
news editor of Atlanta's Suburban Reporter, East Point, Georgia,
and the Decatur-De Kalb News, Decatur, Georgia (1954-1957).
Before coming to NASA in 1961 he was Press Officer at Headquarters,
Third U.S. Army. Ertel established the Manned Spacecraft Center's
official news organ, Space News Roundup, authored fact sheets
and brochures about each Mercury and Gemini manned flight and is
co-author of The Apollo Spacecraft: A Chronology, Volume I
(1969).
Courtney G. Brooks has been a Research Associate with the
History Department of the University of Houston July 1969. Born in
Savannah Georgia (1939), he received his B.A. degree from Huntingdon
College, Montgomery, Alabama (1964), and his M.A. (1966) and Ph.D.
(1969) degrees in history from Tulane University, New Orleans,
Louisiana.
