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Robert Zimmerman is an award-winning science journalist and historian who has written four books and numerous articles on science, engineering, and the history of space exploration and technology.

His first book, Genesis:the Story of Apollo 8, tells the family and political story behind the first manned mission to another world.

Zimmerman's most recent book, THE UNIVERSE IN A MIRROR: THE SAGA OF THE HUBBLE SPACE TELESCOPE AND THE VISIONARIES WHO BUILT IT (Princeton University Press), tells the story of the people who conceived, built, and saved the Hubble Space Telescope. His previous book, LEAVING EARTH: SPACE STATIONS, RIVAL SUPERPOWERS, AND THE QUEST FOR INTERPLANETARY TRAVEL (Joseph Henry Press), was awarded the American Astronautical Society's Eugene M. Emme Astronautical Literature Award in 2003 as the best space history for the general public.

His magazine and newspaper articles have appeared in Science, Astronomy, Air & Space, Sky & Telescope, Natural History, The Wall Street Journal, USA Today, Wired, Invention & Technology, and a host of other publications. In 2000 he was co-winner of the David N. Schramm Award, given by the High Energy Astrophysics Division of the American Astronomical Society for Science Journalism, for his essay in The Sciences, "There She Blows," on the 35-year-old astronomical mystery of gamma ray bursts.

In addition to his writing, Mr. Zimmerman is a cave explorer and cartographer, and has participated in numerous projects exploring and mapping previously unknown caves across the eastern United States.