Brian Harvey is a space writer, author and broadcaster who lives in Dublin, Ireland. He has written articles on spaceflight from the 1970s in such magazines as Orbit, Astronomy and Space and Spaceflight and for newspapers such as the Sunday Press and the Irish Independent. Other articles have been published in Astronomy Now, Space Quarterly, Space Policy, the Journal of the British Interplanetary Society, Zenit and Quest. He has broadcast on the BBC World Service, BBC Radio 4, BBC Northern Ireland and RTE Irish radio and television. He has contributed to films by the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, Danish television and Australian television, subsequently shown on the Discovery channel. He is a Fellow of the British Interplanetary Society. He contributed to the review of space policy by the Department of Business and Skills that led to the establishment of the UK Space Agency. In 2011, marking the 50th anniversary of manned spaceflight, he opened the UK Yuri Gagarin exhibition in Edinburgh, organized by the Princess Dashkova Centre of the University of Edinburgh. 

January 1st, 1953 in (Age 71)