Author: Gordon Vallins Elliot Thompson
Alternate names: G. V. E. Thompson; G.V.E. Thompson
Born: 1920
Bio: Born in 1920, G. V. E. Thompson studied science at Imperial College and engineering at the West Ham College of Technology, London University. Sine 1946 he has been a member of the Council of the British Interplanetary Society, which he has represented at several of the congresses ofthe International Astronautical Federation.
Mr Thompson has written numerous articles for engineering and scientific journals, and a book *The Adventure of Space Travel*, which has been translated into four languages.
*Source: Dust cover of* Artificial Satellites *(1962)*