The Memoirs of a Retooled Geoscientist (in PDF, 4.8MB) by Nicholas M. Short. Dr. Nicholas Short is a former employee at NASA Goddard Space Flight Center and is the author of numerous books touching on the subject of remote sensing. He gained his B.S. from St. Louis University, an M.A. from Washington University, and received his Ph.D. in 1958 from MIT.