Background
Burrows, William E. was born on March 27, 1937 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States. Son of Eli William and Helen Burrows.
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This New Ocean is based on 175 interviews with Russian and American scientists and engineers; on archival documents, including formerly top-secret National Intelligence Estimates and spy satellite pictures; and on nearly three decades of reporting. The impressive result is this fascinating story--the first comprehensive account--of the space age. Here are the strategists and war planners; engineers and scientists; politicians and industrialists; astronauts and cosmonauts; science fiction writers and journalists; and plain, ordinary, unabashed dreamers who wanted to transcend gravity's shackles for the ultimate ride. The story is written from the perspective of a witness who was present at the beginning and who has seen the conclusion of the first space age and the start of the second.
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It was all part of man's greatest adventure--landing men on the Moon and sending a rover to Mars, finally seeing the edge of the universe and the birth of stars, and launching planetary explorers across the solar system to Neptune and beyond. The ancient dream of breaking gravity's hold and taking to space became a reality only because of the intense cold-war rivalry between the superpowers, with ...
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Burrows, William E. was born on March 27, 1937 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States. Son of Eli William and Helen Burrows.
Bachelor, Columbia University, 1960. Master of Arts, Columbia University, 1962.
Reporter The Times-Dispatch, Richmond, Virginia, 1965-1966, The Washington Post, 1966-1968, The New York Times, 1968-1969, The Wall St. Journal, New York City, 1969-1971. Travel writer Fielding Publications, Mallorca, Spain, 1971-1973. Professor journalism New York University, 1974—2009, founder, graduate Science and Environmental Reporting Program.
(This New Ocean is based on 175 interviews with Russian an...)
(It was all part of man's greatest adventure--landing men ...)
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Member American Association for the Advancement of Science, National Association Science Writers, American Astrauts Society (board governors 1999, Eugene M. Emme award 2000), Century Association.
Married Joelle Bentley Hodgson, November 19, 1966. 1 child, Lara Julie.