David Hitt
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David Hitt

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David Hitt is co-author of two books, “Homesteading Space: The Skylab Story,” written with astronauts Owen Garriott and Joe Kerwin, and “Bold They Rise: The Space Shuttle Early Years," both part of the University of Nebraska Press' Ordway-Award-winning Outward Odyssey spaceflight history series. David has appeared in the award-winning documentaries "Searching for Skylab" and "Saving Skylab." He has worked as a contractor at NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center since 2002David is a recipient of NASA's Silver Snoopy Award, presented by the agency's Astronaut Office, and the AIAA Greater Huntsville Section's Hermann Oberth Award. A former newspaper editor, Hitt is a native of Huntsville, Alabama, and holds a bachelors degree in journalism from the University of Mississippi. David is a past president of the Huntsville-Madison County Historical Society, and a past Policy Formulation Subcommittee chair for the National Space Society. He volunteers at the U.S. Space & Rocket Center and is a senior member of the AIAA.
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