James R. Hansen (born 1952) is Professor Emeritus of history at Auburn University in Alabama.

[1] His book From the Ground Up won the History Book Award of the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics in 1988.

For his work, The Wind and Beyond (NASA) - (six-volume series), he was awarded the Eugene Ferguson Prize for Outstanding Reference Work by the Society for the History of Technology in 2005.

Hansen is from Fort Wayne, Indiana.

[1] Hansen serves on the Leadership Board of For All Moonkind, Inc., a nonprofit organization committed to developing a legal framework to manage and protect human cultural heritage in space.