Jonathan McDowell is a writer and researcher on the technical
history of the space program, and has published papers on the topic in
Quest  Magazine and the Journal of the British Interplanetary Society,
as well as writing a monthly column in Sky and Telescope magazine. Since
1989 he has distributed a weekly electronic newsletter with details on
current space activities, Jonathan's Space Report
(http://hea-www.harvard.edu/~jcm/space/jsr/jsr.html), which is widely
distributed in the aerospace community. Dr. McDowell is also an
astrophysicist at the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory in
Cambridge, MA, and has published numerous scientific papers on quasars,
black holes and cosmology.