Joel Powell has been a frequent visitor to Cape Canaveral in Florida over
the past fifteen years and has witnessed over two dozen Atlas, Delta and
Titan launches from the Cape. Growing up in western Canada during the Apollo
moon landing era, Mr. Powell has maintained a life-long interest in space
exploration in general and Cape Canaveral in particular. He has toured many
of the historic Canaveral launch complexes, and participated in the
successful rediscovery of the Alpha-Draco launch emplacement at old pad 10
in 2001. Joel Powell is a freelance correspondent for SPACEFLIGHT magazine
and serves as a Department Editor for QUEST magazine, a quarterly journal of
space history. This is Mr. Powell's third book project.
