AUTHOR'S BIO

Asif A. Siddiqi received his B.S. and M.S. degrees from Texas A&M University. He has just completed his M.B.A. from the University of Massachusetts-Amherst and expects to begin a doctoral program in the fall of 1998 at Carnegie-Mellon University under a National Science Foundation Fellowship to study Cold War science and technologies. Mr. Siddiqi is currently a NASA Contract Historian finishing up a book on the history of the Soviet human space program which will be published by the Johns Hopkins University Press. He has published extensively in Spaceflight, the Journal of the British Interplanetary Society, Quest, and Countdown on the Soviet/Russian space program. He has also presented papers at meetings of the Society for the History of Technology (1994), the American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies (1995), and the Society for History in the Federal Government (1996). He was the 1997 recipient of the Robert H. Goddard Historical Essay Award sponsored by the National Space Club. He currently lives in Philadelphia.


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