I was the Project Manager of NASA’s highly 	successful Mars Global Surveyor Mission – a spacecraft that 	orbited Mars for nine years, returning two hundred thousand images of the planet and relaying pictures from the Mars Rovers. I have written six published historical mystery thrillers about a couple from Kent that solves international crimes during the 1830’s. These novels include: Message of the Pendant, The Forth Conspiracy, Patriote Peril, Fair Wind to Bahia, Desperate Crossing and Without Redemption. tthorpe502@aol.com