William David Hitt is an American author specializing in spaceflight history. Hitt is co-author of Homesteading Space: The Skylab Story, a history of the Skylab program, with NASA astronauts Owen K. Garriott and Joseph Kerwin. Homesteading Space was published in 2008 by the University of Nebraska Press as part of its Outward Odyssey: A People's History of Spaceflight series. Hitt's second book, Bold They Rise: The Space Shuttle Early Years, 1972-1986, also part of the Outward Odyssey series, was published in June 2014.