1. Steve Altes was born on November 13,1962 and is an American writer and former aerospace engineer.
11 Facts About Steve Altes
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Steve Altes graduated from Fayetteville-Manlius High School in Manlius in 1980.
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In high school, Steve Altes once ran a track meet in clown make-up.
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In 1982, Steve Altes was part of the MIT team that set a world land-speed record for a human-powered vehicle using a five-person, forty-foot-long "bicycle".
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Steve Altes left Congress for a position as program control manager for the Pegasus air-launched space booster at Orbital Sciences Corporation.
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Steve Altes is a co-recipient of the 1990 Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum Trophy for Current Achievement in Aerospace.
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Steve Altes has written a series of first-person participatory adventure essays about experiences such as:.
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In 2005, Altes was a contributor to Michael J Rosen's anthology, May Contain Nuts: A Very Loose Canon of American Humor.
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Steve Altes's piece satirized his career as a male model.
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Steve Altes has appeared in a number of films and television shows after being accidentally "discovered" and cast as a German terrorist in Die Hard With a Vengeance in 1995.
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Steve Altes has worked as a commercial print model and hand model.