{"id":8651,"date":"2018-09-04T10:46:23","date_gmt":"2018-09-04T17:46:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/?p=8651"},"modified":"2018-09-05T10:57:07","modified_gmt":"2018-09-05T17:57:07","slug":"hansen-james-r-1952","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/?p=8651","title":{"rendered":"HANSEN, JAMES R., 1952-"},"content":{"rendered":"

Biography:<\/strong><\/p>\n

Historian; university professor of history. Born– June 12, 1952, Fort Wayne, Indiana.\u00a0 Married Margaret Anne “Peggy” Miller, December 11, 1976.\u00a0 Children–two.\u00a0 Education: Indiana State University, B. A., 1974; Ohio State University, M.A., 1976;\u00a0 Ph.D, 1981. Historian, NASA Langley Research, 1981-85; Professor of history, University of Maine, Orono, 1984-85; Professor of History, Auburn University, 1986-; Department Chair, 1992-96; Director of Auburn Honors College, 2006-. Member advisory boards and panels of several organizations, including the National Air and Space Museum, the U. S. Space and Rocket Center, the Archives of Aerospace Exploration,\u00a0and the Smithsonian Institution Press.\u00a0 Received several awards at Auburn including the creative research award,\u00a0teaching award, 2000, and induction into the Auburn College of Liberal Arts Academy of Teaching and Outstanding Scholars, in 2005.\u00a0 Received the History Book Award from the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics; the Eugene Emme Prize from the American Astronautical Society; a Pulitzer Prize nomination\u00a0for \u00a0Spaceflight Revolution<\/em>; the Robert H. Goddard Award from the National Space Club and distinction of excellence from the Air Force Historical Foundation.<\/p>\n

Sources:<\/strong><\/p>\n

Contemporary Authors online<\/p>\n

Publications;<\/strong><\/p>\n

The Bird Is on the Wing:\u00a0 Aerodynamics and the Progress of the American Airplane.\u00a0 College Station, TX:\u00a0 Texas A & M University Press, 2004.<\/p>\n

A Difficult Par: Robert Trent Jones Sr. and the Making of Modern Golf.\u00a0 New York:\u00a0 Gotham Books, 2014.<\/p>\n

Engineer in Charge:\u00a0 A History of the Langley Aeronautical Laboratory, 1917-1958.\u00a0 Washington, DC: NASA, 1987.<\/p>\n

First Man:\u00a0 The Life of Neil A. Armstrong.\u00a0 New York; Simon and Schuster, 2005.<\/p>\n

Spaceflight Revolution: NASA Langley Research Laboratory from Sputnik to Apollo.\u00a0 Washington DC: NASA, 1995.<\/p>\n

Joint_Publications;<\/strong><\/p>\n

Forever Young:\u00a0 A Life of Adventure in Air and Space.\u00a0 Gainesville, FL:\u00a0 University Press of Florida, 2012.<\/p>\n

From the Ground Up:\u00a0 The Autobiography of an Aeronautical Engineer.\u00a0 Washington DC: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1988.<\/p>\n

Truth, Lies, and O-Rings: Inside the Space Shuttle Challenger Disaster. Gainesville, FL: University Press of Florida, 2009.<\/p>\n

Joint_Editor;<\/strong><\/p>\n

The Wind and Beyond:\u00a0 A Documentary Journey into the History of Aerodynamics in America.\u00a0 VI volumes.\u00a0 Washington:\u00a0 NASA, 2003.<\/p>\n

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Biography: Historian; university professor of history. Born– June 12, 1952, Fort Wayne, Indiana.\u00a0 Married Margaret Anne “Peggy” Miller, December 11, 1976.\u00a0 Children–two.\u00a0 Education: Indiana State University, B. A., 1974; Ohio State University, M.A., 1976;\u00a0 Ph.D, 1981. Historian, NASA Langley Research, 1981-85; Professor of history, University of Maine, Orono, 1984-85; Professor of History, Auburn University, 1986-; […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8651","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-authors","category-g-i"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8651","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\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8651"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8651\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8655,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8651\/revisions\/8655"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8651"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8651"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8651"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}