Robert Zimmerman

ROBERT ZIMMERMAN wrote the article about docking in space in our Fall 2001 issue. His books include Genesis: The Story of Apollo 8 (Four Walls Eight Windows, 1998) and The Chronological Encyclopedia of Discoveries in Space (Greenwood, 2000).

Articles by this Contributor

Fall 2002

More Light!

CONVENTIONAL TELESCOPES REACHED THEIR PRACTICAL LIMIT IN THE 1940S. THREE DECADES LATER A GROUP OF IMAGINATIVE YOUNG ASTRONOMERS FOUND A WHOLE NEW WAY TO LOOK AT THE STARS.

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Fall 2001

Docking In Space

YEARS OF DANGEROUS TRYING AND SOME REAL HEROICS MADE IT POSSIBLE

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Fall 2000

Telstar

AT&T developed the first modern communications satellite and launched it in 1962. Then the company planned to link the entire globe with a network of orbiting transmitters, but not everyone thought that was a good idea. Read >>

Winter 1998

Bathtub In The Sky

Spring 1998

How To Fly Without A Plane

A WOULD-BE AVIATOR WHO COULDN’T GET A PILOT’S LICENSE INVENTED HANG-GLIDING INSTEAD Read >>

Fall 1998

Log Flume

It stretched 70 miles through rugged Sierra Nevada country to bring some of the world’s largest trees to market, and it gave us two national parks, one of the world’s most productive farming areas, and an amusement-park ride to boot Read >>