William Burrows

William Burrows...Author, Professor, Contributing Editor, Air & Space/Smithsonian Magazine William Burrows is Director of the Science & Environmental Reporting Program at New York University. He is a former reporter for The New York Times, The Washington Post and The Wall Street Journal. Mr. Burrows is one of the pre-eminent experts on NASA and Outer Space, having covered all aspects of the program since its inception. He is a frequent guest on NBC and MSNBC discussing subjects related to our continuing exploration of Space.

A prolific writer, he is the author of the following books:

Richthofen: A True History of the Red Baron (Harcourt, Brace & World, 1969)

Vigilante (Harcourt, Brace, Jovanovich, 1976)

On Reporting the News (New York University Press, 1977)

Deep Black: Space Espionage and National Security (Random House, 1986)

Exploring Space: Voyages in the Solar System and Beyond (Random House, 1990)

Mission to Deep Space: Voyagers' Journey of Discovery (Scientific American Books, 1993)

Critical Mass: The Dangerous Race for Superweapons in a Fragmenting World (with Robert Windrem) (Simon & Schuster, 1994 )

The New Ocean: The Story of the First Space Age (Random House, 1998)

The Infinite Journey: Eyewitness Accounts of NASA and the Age of Space (Discovery Channel Publishing, 2000)

By Any Means Necessary: America's Secret Air War in the Cold War (Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2001)

Topics:
1. Star Wars and the Trojan Horse
2. Intelligence Requirements for a New Threat
3. A Space Sation Named Hubris
4. Remembered Heroes

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