Dennis Wingo

Thanks for coming to my author page! I hate writing! However, since you cannot convey ideas without it, here we are. I am from a small town, Graysville Alabama, somewhere outside of Birmingham. My interest in space and technology is lifelong. Several of my earliest memories are of watching the Gemini and Apollo missions on television. When I was six years old my uncle drove us by the launch gantry of the Gemini 12 mission, just a few days before it launched. My involvement in technology began when my brother bought me a Radio Shack 101 electronics kit when I was 12 years old.

After a tumultuous teenage era I moved to California and became involved in aerospace and the microcomputer industry. I worked at pioneering companies like Vector Graphic Inc (microcomputers), Symbolics (Liso Machines), Ibis (first gigabyte hard drive), and Alpharel (first terabyte level engineering document archival system). I left industry and went back to school at the University of Alabama in Huntsville, where I received my degree in engineering physics, an under appreciated discipline that crosses the engineering and science disciplines.

At UAH I worked on several space missions, flying acceleration measurement hardware, including integrating and flying the first MacIntosh computer and hard disk drive on the Shuttle (STS-46, STS 57, STS 63). I was also one of the founders of the Lunar Prospector mission to the Moon and flew a small satellite under NASA sponsorship called SEDSAT-1 in 1998.

Leaving the academic world for the quasi-commercial space business, I have worked to help bridge the gap between the cultures of the computer and aerospace industries. I have written a lot of technical papers and authored Moonrush in 2004. I also co-authored books (chapters) in other books such as "Return to the Moon" (Apogee Books) and "Toward a Space Power Theory" (National Defense University.

I am currently updating Moonrush to be on a Kindle and beginning the writing of the sequel to Moonrush. Thanks for reading my books!