Phil Edwards, Miller Goss, Dave Hogg, Tony Kerr, Jay Lockman, Jeff Mangum, Jim Moran, Vern Pankonin, Marian Pospieszalski, Jon Romney, George Seielstad, Richard Schilizzi, Jill Tarter, Paul Vanden Bout, Cam Wade, Craig Walker, and Sandy Weinreb, each of whom reviewed one or more chapters. We are especially grateful to Tony Beasley, Ron Ekers, and Peter Robertson, who reviewed the entire manuscript and made many helpful suggestions, and whose careful eyes caught numerous errors others had missed. Rebecca Charbonneau, Heather Cole, Michele Kellermann, Sheila Marks, and Nicole Thisdell gave us valuable editorial help and advice, and Jeff Hellerman helped prepare images for both content and cover. Ramon Khanna, our Springer editor, provided valuable advice and support throughout our project. Of course, any remaining errors are the responsibility of the authors.
We are especially grateful to Woody Sullivan, who generously donated to the NRAO/AUI Archives the audio recordings and available written transcripts of the interviews he conducted between 1971 and 1988 with 225 different radio astronomers, as well as the working papers he compiled on the interviewees and on other scientists. Author interviews of Mike Balister, Bernie Burke, Fred Crews, Frank Drake, Cyril Hazard, Dave Heeschen, Dave Hogg, Bill Howard, Harvey Liszt, Tom Matthews, Kochu Menon, Mark Price, Grote Reber, Ted Riffe, and Cam Wade gave us additional valuable insights which were important in writing Open Skies.
We wish to thank Tony Beasley and AUI for their long support of the NRAO/AUI Archives and, in particular, for funding to make this work available as an open access publication. And finally, but certainly not least, we also want to thank Michele, Ron, and Dana for their long-suffering tolerance and support of this project.
| Charlottesville, VA, USA | Kenneth I. Kellermann |
| Charlottesville, VA, USA | Ellen N. Bouton |
| Providence, RI, USA | Sierra S. Brandt |
