{"id":2187,"date":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","date_gmt":"-0001-11-30T07:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/?p=2187"},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-30T07:00:00","slug":"sharpe, mitchell raymond, jr., 1924-  ","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/?p=2187","title":{"rendered":"SHARPE, MITCHELL RAYMOND, JR., 1924-"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Biography:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Educator, consultant.  Born&#8211;  Dec. 22, 1924, in Knoxville, Tenn.  Parents&#8211;  Mitchell  R. and Katie Grace (Hill) Sharpe.  Married&#8211;  Virginia Ruth Lowry on Dec. 21, 1952.  Children&#8211;  Three.  Education&#8211;  Alabama Polytechnic Institute, B.S., M.A.; studied at Emory University.  Instructor at Auburn University; technical writer and supervisor of technical writers at Marshall Space Flight Center; consultant and historian at National Air and Space Museum, Washington, and at Alabama Space and Rocket Center; associate editor of Space Journal, 1957-1959; contributor to serials and yearbooks.  Won Robert H. Goddard Essay Award in history of rocketry, 1968, 1975; awarded Tsiolkkovsky Gold Medal of USSR, 1972. <\/p>\n<p><strong>Source:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Contemporary Authors, Vol. 29R; Who&#8217;s Who in the South and Southwest, 1976.  <\/p>\n<p><strong>Publication(s):<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Development of the Lifesaving Rocket;  a Study in 19th Century Technical                      Fallout.  Marshall Space Flight Center, Ala.;  George C. Marshall Space Flight                     Center, 1969. <\/p>\n<p>     Dividends from Space.  New York;  Crowell, 1971. <\/p>\n<p>     &#8220;It Is I, Sea Gull;&#8221;  Valentina Tereshkova, First Woman in Space.  New York;  Crowell, 1975. <\/p>\n<p>     Living in Space;  the Astronaut and His Environment.  New York;  Doubleday, 1969. <\/p>\n<p>     The Rocket Team.  New York;  Crowell, 1979. <\/p>\n<p>     Satellites and Probes;  the Development of Unmanned Space Flight.   New York;  Doubleday, 1970. <\/p>\n<p>     Yuri Gagarin;  First Man in Space.  Huntsville, Ala.;  Strode, 1969. <\/p>\n<p><strong>Joint_Publication(s):<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Applied Astronautics;  an Introduction to Space Flight.  Englewood Cliffs,                           N.J.;  Prentice Hall, 1963. <\/p>\n<p>     Basic Astronautics;  an Introduction to Space Science, Engineering, and Medicine.  Englewood      Cliffs, N.J.;  Prentice Hall, 1962. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Biography: Educator, consultant. Born&#8211; Dec. 22, 1924, in Knoxville, Tenn. Parents&#8211; Mitchell R. and Katie Grace (Hill) Sharpe. Married&#8211; Virginia Ruth Lowry on Dec. 21, 1952. Children&#8211; Three. Education&#8211; Alabama Polytechnic Institute, B.S., M.A.; studied at Emory University. Instructor at Auburn University; technical writer and supervisor of technical writers at Marshall Space Flight Center; consultant [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2187","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-authors","category-p-s"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2187","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2187"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2187\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2187"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2187"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2187"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}