posted 05-19-2009 08:55 AM               

My Life in Space: The Story Behind NASA's Amazing Pictures of the Planets by award winning author William B. Green presents a compilation of intimate and revealing anecdotes that take the reader deep behind the scenes of the famous space agency’s unmanned missions to reveal the methods, techniques, and personalities responsible for NASA’s rich and spectacular collection of pictures of the planets and beyond. With more than twenty years’ experience managing teams working on various unmanned space missions, author Green brings a rare, insider’s look into the inner-workings of one of the world’s most comprehensive efforts to document our solar system, its planets, moons, and the universe. With almost sixty illustrations, including dramatic photographs taken by NASA spacecraft over the past four decades, and photos taken in many of the operations areas supporting the historic space missions, My Life in Space promises surprises with every turn of the page.

About the Author
William B. Green retired in 2003 as Manager of the Spitzer Science Center and the Infrared Processing and Analysis Center at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech). Prior to joining Caltech, he spent twenty years at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, where he directed teams responsible for processing images from NASA’s planetary exploration programs, including Mars Pathfinder, Cassini, Galileo, Magellan, Voyager, Viking, and the Mariner spacecraft. He received the NASA Exceptional Achievement Medal and the Aviation Week and Space Technology Laurels Award for his work on the Mars Pathfinder mission. He is the author of two textbooks on digital image processing. Since his retirement from Caltech, he has been providing consulting services to several NASA missions, including the James Webb Space Telescope, and the Spitzer Space Telescope, Phoenix, Kepler, and WISE missions at JPL.

• Paperback: 248 pages
  
• Publisher: BookSurge Publishing (May 1, 2009)
  
• ISBN-10: 1439217335
  
• ISBN-13: 978-1439217337