J. L. Pickering

J.L. Pickering is a manned space flight historian who has been archiving rare space images and historic artifacts for some forty five years. Drawing from NASA archives, retired NASA personnel, news photographers, and other sources, he has assembled a personal collection of more than 100,000 color and black-and-white prints and images. He covered the final Apollo/Saturn launch (ASTP) in 1975 and attended more than a dozen space shuttle launches. Today he serves as a resource for authors, museums, astronauts and others. He lives in Bloomington, Illinois.