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DESTINATION MOON: A History of the
Lunar Orbiter Program
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- [412] THE AUTHOR
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- While a graduate student at the University
of Maryland, where he also taught courses in history, Bruce K.
Byers devoted the summers of 1967 through 1970 to writing the
Lunar Orbiter history as a summer intern at NASA. Earlier he had
studied at the Ludwig-Maxmillians Universitaet in Munich, Germany.
In 1971, Byers joined the U.S. Foreign Service, his first
assignment taking him to Iran with the U.S. Information Service in
1972. His next assignment was as program officer with USIS in
Bombay, India, where he now lives with his wife and three
children. While in India, he has also written articles and
lectured on the U. S. space program.
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