Orndorff, Beverly

Beverly Orndorff is a retired science writer for The Richmond Times-Dispatch, where he worked for 40 years. He covered the U.S. space program at Cape Canaveral, Houston and NASA-Langley, including Project Mercury, Project Gemini, the Apollo moon landing missions, the Space Shuttle program and the Mars-landing Project Viking. He also covered the earliest kidney, heart and liver transplants; the birth of the nation's first "test tube" baby and interviewed dozens of Nobel Prize winners and other world-class scientists. He is a member of the National Association of Science Writers. Orndorff is a g...