Chris Gainor

Christopher "Chris" Gainor masanin tarihin fasaha ne wanda ya kware a binciken sararin samaniya da jiragen sama. Ya rubuta littattafai shida kan Tarihin binciken sararin samaniya da kuma kan Avro Canada CF-105 Arrow, jirgin sama mai saurin tashi da gwamnatin Kanada ta soke a shekarar 1959.

Gainor kwanan nan ya kammala rubuta tarihin ayyukan Hubble Space Telescope don Hukumar Kula da Sararin Samaniya ta Amurka (NASA).

Gainor has been editor of Quest: The History of Spaceflight Quarterly since 2016. He served as president of the Royal Astronomical Society of Canada from 2018 to 2020, and he is a fellow of the British Interplanetary Society. Asteroid 20041 Gainor has been named for him. 

Gainor holds a Ph.D. in the history of technology from the University of Alberta, and has worked as a history instructor in the University of Victoria's history department and as an Assistant Professor for the Royal Military College of Canada.

A farkon aikinsa, Gainor ya yi aiki a matsayin ɗan jarida a Vancouver Sun, inda ya lashe Kyautar Jaridar Ƙasa  saboda wani jerin labarai kan mai fafutukar yaki da ciwon daji na Kanada Terry Fox. Haka kuma, ya yi aiki kuma ya rubuta wa wasu jaridu da mujallu da dama, tare da yin aiki a hukumomin gwamnati da na ƙungiyoyi masu zaman kansu.

Littafinsa na farko, Arrows to the Moon, yana bayar da labarin injiniyoyin jiragen sama 32 na Birtaniya da Kanada waɗanda suka tafi aiki a Hukumar Kula da Sararin Samaniya ta Amurka (NASA) a shekarar 1959 bayan sun rasa ayyukansu lokacin da gwamnatin Kanada ta soke Avro Arrow. Da yawa daga cikin waɗannan injiniyoyin sun ci gaba da rike manyan mukamai a NASA, ciki har da Jim Chamberlin, John Hodge, Owen Maynard, da Tecwyn Roberts.

Ya dawo kan tarihin Avro Arrow tare da littafinsa Who Killed the Avro Arrow?

 Walfe-Walfe
 Arrows to the Moon: Avro's Engineers and the Space Race (2001) Apogee Books
 Canada in Space: The People & Stories Behind Canada's Role in the Exploration of Space (2006) Folklore Publishing
 Who killed the Avro Arrow? (2007) Folklore Publishing
 To a Distant Day: The Rocket Pioneers (2008) University of Nebraska Press 
 The Bomb and America's Missile Age (2018) Johns Hopkins University Press 
 Not Yet Imagined: A Study of Hubble Space Telescope Operations (2020) NASA History Division 

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