- Robert Godwin
Robert Godwin was born in England in 1958.
Personal info
After attending St Oswalds
Ellesmere College in Shropshire, where he studied Mathematics and Physics, he emigrated to Canada.Fact|date=November 2007Music Business
In 1981 he managed the Orient Express night club, a venue in
Burlington, Ontario where many world class rock acts performed includingRick Derringer , Steppenwolf, Joe Perry and Mountain. In 1983 Godwin turned to music management and assisted in the recording and production of albums byMichael White & The White . In 1987 he started the process to establish his own record labelGriffin Music and his own book publishing company,Collector's Guide Publishing . In 1990 the first album by Michael White was released onGriffin Music . Over the next few years Griffin would release many classic rock acts' back-catalogs through Griffin, notably, the BBC In Concert series,Anderson Bruford Wakeman Howe ,Motörhead ,Thin Lizzy ,Mike Oldfield ,Olivia Newton-John ,Hawkwind , Nazareth, andDavid Bowie . [Nickson, C "Robert Godwin" - (June 1996)]Author
In 1984 Godwin wrote "The Illustrated
Led Zeppelin Collection" a book forLed Zeppelin collectors. Books he authored between 1987 and 2007 include "The Illustrated Collector's Guide toLed Zeppelin , The Illustrated Collector's Guide toHawkwind , The Illustrated Collector's Guide toKate Bush ,Apollo 11 The First Men on the Moon, Project Apollo The Test Program, Project Apollo Exploring the Moon, Mars, The Lunar Exploration Scrapbook, Russian Spacecraft,Space Shuttle Fact Archive and The Making ofLed Zeppelin IV ." In 2005 Godwin co-authored "Saturn " with Alan Lawrie. The book won theSir Arthur Clarke Award for Best Presentation Written in 2006. [ [http://clarkeawards.org/2006awards/2006winners/2006winners.html The Arthur C Clarke Awards 2006 Winners] ]Print Publishing
Between 1987 and 1998 Collector's Guide Publishing released books on many different rock artists including
Elvis Presley ,Kate Bush ,Wishbone Ash andKiss .In 1998, at the invitation of astronaut
Buzz Aldrin , Godwin would begin his imprintApogee Books .Between 1998 and 2007
Apogee Books published almost 100 book titles about space flight with contributions fromBuzz Aldrin ,Sir Arthur C. Clarke ,Tom Hanks ,Ron Howard ,David R. Scott ,Harrison Schmitt andWernher von Braun .Editing
Godwin has edited dozens of books including the "
NASA Mission Reports" series (25 titles as of 2007),Dyna-Soar HyperSonic Strategic Weapons System, Rocket & Space CorporationEnergia , The Conquest of Space, Columbia Accident Investigation Report as well as a series of vintage science fiction books in 2006 under the "Apogee Science Fiction" imprint. Titles with forewords by Godwin and editorial content includeGarrett P. Serviss ' Edison's Conquest of Mars and A Columbus of Space,Hugo Gernsback 's The Scientific Adventures of Baron Munchhausen, andGeorge Griffith 's The World Peril of 1910.TV/Video
For his 1999 book "
Apollo 11 TheNASA Mission Reports" he created the first ever seamless QTVR digital panoramas of the Apollo lunar surface photography(1999)as well as the first commercial release of the digitized footage of theApollo 11 moonwalk broadcast, both on an accompanying CDROM. [ [http://catalog.core.nasa.gov/core.nsf/0/b29ada9fae0646d08625698c006b16c9?OpenDocument NASACORE educational site. Apollo 11 The NASA Mission Reports] ] He also produced and directed the 2002 direct-to-DVD "Apollo 11 - Moonwalk" which featured the first ever time-synchronized multiple-camera-angle movie of the first moonwalk and moon landing. The DVD first appeared in the book "Apollo 11 - TheNASA Mission Reports Volume 3". (2002). [ [http://news-and-society.info/2007/09/02/boots-on-the-moon-lunacy-run-amuck/ Apollo 11 The NASA Mission Reports Vol 3 DVD] ] Godwin has consulted on theDiscovery Channel TV series "Rocket Science" and in 2007 "Mars Rising ". He also consulted on theLed Zeppelin episode ofVH-1 "Legends" television show.Fact|date=November 2007Awards and Achievements
In 2007 the International Astronomical Union's Committee for Small Body Nomenclature approved the naming of a main belt asteroid after Robert and his brother Richard Godwin for their efforts in documenting space history and raising public awareness about Near Earth Objects. "4252 Godwin" is an absolute magnitude 12.7 minor planet discovered in 1985 by H. Debehogne at the European Southern Observatory. [ [http://ssd.jpl.nasa.gov/sbdb.cgi?sstr=4252 JPL Small-Body Database Browser] ]
References
*Ott, Terry (2000) "From Rock To The Moon" -
National Post Canada (January 3 2000)
*"Space is the Place" -Playboy Magazine (March 2000)
*Agle, D.C. "Just The Facts" -Air & Space Smithsonian (Oct/Nov 2000)
*Kelly, J. "A year after Columbia disaster many wonder how to get report" -Florida Today (Apr 21 2004)
*Mosley, J "Apollo 11 - The NASA Mission Reports" - The Planetarian Journal of TheInternational Planetarium Society (June 2004)
*Oberg, J. "A Rocket Family Album" -IEEE Spectrum (Feb 2002)
*Hiscox, J. "X-15 - The NASA Mission Reports" -Astronomy Magazine (May 2002)
*Taylor, R. "Apollo 11 Vol 3." - Spaceflight (Dec 2002)
*Kelly, J. "Von Braun's vision not far off" -Florida Today (Nov 16 2003)
*Giilk, S "Out-of-this-world Publisher" -The Enterprise Bulletin (Mar 10 2006)
*Taylor, B "Armchair Astronaut" -The Toronto Star (Dec 27 2001)External links
* [http://www.cgpublishing.com Collector's Guide Publishing Official Web Site]
* [http://www.imdb.com/name/nm2609020/ Robert Godwin] at the [http://www.imdb.com Internet Movie Database]
* [http://www.css.ca/summit2005/godwin.php Biography at Canadian Space Society]
* [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0428153/ Rocket Science] at the [http://www.imdb.com Internet Movie Database]
* [http://www.space.com/spacelibrary/books/library_dyna-soar_030723.html Interview atSpace.com ]
* [http://newvoices.info/audio/ttn/steve86.wma "Interview with Dr Sky at Teentalknetwork.com"]
* [http://www.thespaceshow.com/detail.asp?q=360 "Interview on The Space Show"]
* [http://www.hq.nasa.gov/alsj/a11/video11.html "Extracts of Apollo 11 CDROM at NASA's Apollo Lunar Surface Journal"]
* [http://www.marsrising.ca/mars/marsRising/episode6.jsp "Mars Rising" atDiscovery Channel Canada]
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