Glen E. Swanson

In 1991, I purchased my own printing press and started producing Quest: The History of Spaceflight Quarterly which now has been in publication for over 30 years. This effort eventually propelled me into a job as the Chief Historian at NASA's Johnson Space Center from 1998-2002. After leaving NASA I ran my own space book business, Liftoff Books. I've taught college physics labs, was a counselor at Space Camp, coordinated programs at the Michigan Space and Science Center, co-founded and co-organized the Roger That! event in Grand Rapids, Michigan, and run a store on eBay (NASAWorm). But I've mostly lived a life of research, writing and travel, almost all of it relating to human excursions into outer space (with brief detours into the history of wind energy and Scandinavian polar expeditions).

I live in Grand Rapids Michigan with my wife Deana Weibel (a cultural anthropologist, published author and full professor at Grand Valley State University) and my son (a budding screenwriter).