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Ed Hengeveld is a spaceflight historian who lives with his wife and son in the Netherlands, where he works for the Dutch television news.
His interest in spaceflight began with the Apollo-8 mission around the moon in 1968 and has grown ever since. In 1981 he made his first trip to the Kennedy Space Center to witness the launch of STS-1 and he was also present at the Dryden Flight Research Center when Columbia landed there two days later. While at Dryden, he also met various people involved in the X-15 and lifting body progams, resulting in a special interest in this area of flight research. In his spare time Hengeveld enjoys painting, especially scenes from the Apollo program. His paintings have been published in various magazines around the world and several astronauts own portraits of themselves, painted by Ed Hengeveld.
