About the Authors
GRANT PALMER has worked in the Space Technology Division at NASA Ames Research Center in Moffett Field, CA for the past 23 years. Grant was a NASA engineer for 15 years and currently works as a scientific programmer with the ELORET Corporation, developing computer applications that help design the thermal protection systems of spacecraft reentering the Earth's atmosphere.
Grant earned a Bachelor of Science degree in mechanical engineering from the University of California, Berkeley. He later received a Master of Science degree in aerospace engineering from Stanford University. Grant is an expert in FORTRAN, C, C++, and Perl, ...