SCOTT COOKMAN, a nonfiction writer, is the author of Ice Blink: The Tragic Fate of Sir John Franklin’s Lost Polar Expedition (Wiley). He is a regular contributor to Field & Stream. Cookman’s historical features have appeared in Army, Atlanta magazine, Boundary Waters Journal, and Civil War Times. Cookman’s interactive Man & Mission videos, which chronicle America’s Mercury 7 astronauts, are a primary attraction at the U.S. Astronaut Hall of Fame (Cape Canaveral, Florida). He lives in Atlanta, Georgia.