Chris Gainor

Chris Gainor
Chris Gainor
Education Ph.D., Master of Science and a Bachelor of Arts
Occupation historian


Chris Gainor is a historian of technology specializing in space exploration and aeronautics. He has written four books on the history of space exploration and on the Avro Canada CF-105 Arrow, a jet interceptor aircraft canceled by the Canadian government in 1959.

He holds a Ph.D. in the history of technology, and has worked as a history instructor in the University of Victoria's history department.[1]

Publications

  • Arrows to the Moon: Avro's Engineers and the Space Race (2001) Apogee Books[2]
  • Canada in Space: The People & Stories Behind Canada's Role in the Exploration of Space (2006) Folklore Publishing[3]
  • Who killed the Avro Arrow? (2007) Folklore Publishing[4]
  • To a Distant Day: The Rocket Pioneers (2008) University of Nebraska Press [5]

References

  1. ^ http://spaceistheplace.ca/cg/Chris_Gainor/Welcome.html
  2. ^ [1]
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