
Frederick I. Ordway III
4 April 1927 – 1 July 2014
16 works on record
Biography
Frederick Ira Ordway III was born in New York City and raised in Maine. He studied geosciences at Harvard University. He spent several years in graduate study at the University of Paris and other universities in Europe. He worked at a mining company and later for the rocket fuel company Reaction Motors. He spent three years as a technical adviser on the film *2001: A Space Odyssey*. From 1970-1973 he was a faculty member at The University of Alabama in Huntsville. He then became a special assistant to Robert Seamans, the first Director of the Energy Research and Development Agency (now the DOE), where he stayed for the remainder of his career. He was the author, co-author, or editor of more than thirty books and over three hundred articles. He was the longest-serving member of the American Rocket Society, having joined in 1939 and maintained his membership until his death in 2014.
Works

Conquering the sun's empire

History of rocketry & space travel

International missile and spacecraft guide

The rocket team

Dividends from space

Visions of spaceflight

Pictorial guide to planet Earth

Life in other solar systems

History of Rocketry and Astronautics

Advances in Space Science and Technology
Applied Astronautics
Applied Astronautics
1963
Basic Astronautics
Basic Astronautics
1962
Aufbruch in den Weltraum
Aufbruch in den Weltraum
Histoire mondiale de l'Astronautique
Histoire mondiale de l'Astronautique
Annotated bibliography of space science and technology with an astronomical supplement
Annotated bibliography of space science and technology with an astronomical supplement
International missile and spacecraft guide [by] Frederick I. Ordway [and] Ronald C. Wakeford
International missile and spacecraft guide [by] Frederick I. Ordway [and] Ronald C. Wakeford