Thomas D. Jones is a veteran NASA astronaut, scientist, speaker, author, and consultant. During eleven years with NASA, he flew on four space shuttle missions, totaling fifty-three days in space.

    Jones is a Distinguished Graduate of the U.S. Air Force Academy and piloted B-52D strategic bombers prior to joining NASA’s astronaut corps. He has written about space exploration and aviation history in Air and Space, Smithsonian, and Popular Mechanics, and is the author of numerous books, including an autobiography, Sky Walking: An Astronaut’s Memoir (Smithsonian, 2006). Jones is a regular on-air contributor for Fox News Channel’s spaceflight coverage and lives in the Virginia suburbs of Washington, D.C.

    His latest book is Hell Hawks!: The Untold Story of the American Fliers Who Savaged Hitler's Wehrmacht (Zenith, June 2008), co-authored with Robert F. Dorr.