Gary L. Bennett

Gary L. Bennett (born 17 January 1940, in Twin Falls, Idaho) is an American scientist and engineer specializing in aerospace and energy technologies. He has worked for NASA and the U.S. Department of Energy on advanced space power systems and advanced space propulsion systems. His professional career has included work on the Voyager, Galileo, and Ulysses space missions, and he is currently working as a consultant in aerospace power and propulsion systems. He has written over 150 technical documents (papers, articles, book chapters). He is also a science fiction author (The Star Sailors, first published by St. Martin's Press in 1980 and reissued in 2005 and 2009 and most recently available also as an e-book and an audiobook read by the author). Bennett earned a Ph.D. in physics (Washington State University, 1970). He has received numerous professional awards and has been elected a Fellow of the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics, the American Physical Society and the British Interplanetary Society. The Star Sailors was nominated for the Prometheus Award.