Roger D. Launius

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According to Wikipedia, Roger D. Launius is an American historian and author of Lithuanian descent, a former chief historian of NASA. He retired in 2016 as Associate Director for Collections and Curatorial Affairs for the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum in Washington, D.C. Launius is a consulting historian in air and space history. He has written many books on space flight, and also published on the history of the Latter Day Saint movement.

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The Eclipse Project (2012) (67)
Public opinion polls and perceptions of US human spaceflight (2003) (65)
Spaceflight and the myth of presidential leadership (1998) (52)
Exploring the Unknown: Selected Documents in the History of the U.S. Civil Space Program (1995) (51)
Deep Space Chronicle: A Chronology of Deep Space and Planetary Probes 1958-2000 (2002) (48)
Societal Impact of Spaceflight (2012) (45)
Reconsidering Sputnik : forty years since the Soviet satellite (1997) (38)
Critical Issues in the History of Spaceflight (2006) (36)
Cosmos & Culture: Cultural Evolution in a Cosmic Context (2010) (33)
Globalizing Polar Science (2010) (29)
NASA: A History of the U.S. Civil Space Program (1994) (28)
Globalizing polar science : reconsidering the International Polar and Geophysical years (2010) (28)
HEROES IN A VACUUM: THE APOLLO ASTRONAUT AS CULTURAL ICON (2005) (25)
An annotated bibliography of the Apollo program (1994) (23)
Robots in Space: Technology, Evolution, and Interplanetary Travel (2008) (22)
Perceptions of Apollo: Myth, nostalgia, memory or all of the above? (2005) (21)
Atmosphere of Freedom: Sixty Years at the NASA Ames Research Center (2000) (21)
Coming Home: Reentry and Recovery From Space (2012) (20)
Toward a history of the space shuttle. An annotated bibliography (1992) (20)
Is It Finally Time for Space Tourism? (2006) (18)
The historical dimension of space exploration: reflections and possibilities (2000) (17)
Frontiers of space exploration (1998) (17)
Utah, the Right Place: The Official Centennial History (1995) (17)
Uplink-Downlink: A History of the Deep Space Network, 1957-1997 (2012) (17)
NASA and the Decision to Build the Space Shuttle, 1969-72 (1994) (14)
Summer books (2017) (13)
Kennedy's Space Policy Reconsidered: A Post-Cold War Perspective (2003) (13)
Escaping Earth: Human Spaceflight as Religion (2011) (13)
Can we colonize the solar system? Human biology and survival in the extreme space environment. (2010) (12)
American Memory, Culture Wars, and the Challenge of Presenting Science and Technology in a National Museum (2007) (12)
Exploring the Unknown: Selected Documents in the History of the US Civilian Space Program. Volume 3; Using Space (2019) (12)
Interpreting the Moon Landings: Project Apollo and the Historians (2006) (11)
Space Stations: Base Camps to the Stars (2003) (11)
Robots and humans in space flight: Technology, evolution, and interplanetary travel (2006) (11)
To Reach the High Frontier: A History of U.S. Launch Vehicles (2015) (11)
Differing visions : dissenters in Mormon history (1994) (11)
Reacting to nuclear power systems in space: American public protests over outer planetary probes since the 1980s (2014) (10)
Assessing the legacy of the Space Shuttle (2006) (10)
Religious seekers and the advent of Mormonism (1989) (10)
Flight Research: Problems Encountered and What They Should Teach Us (2012) (10)
Why go to the moon? The many faces of lunar policy (2012) (10)
Apollo: A Retrospective Analysis (2011) (9)
A Western Mormon in Washington, D.C.: James C. Fletcher, NASA, and the Final Frontier (1995) (9)
A Chronology of Mars Exploration (1997) (9)
Reconsidering a Century of Flight (2003) (9)
Evolving public perceptions of spaceflight in American culture. (2003) (9)
Innovation and the development of flight (2001) (8)
Historical Analogs for the Stimulation of Space Commerce (2014) (8)
United States Space Cooperation and Competition: Historical Reflections (2009) (8)
Cultures In Conflict: A Documentary History of the Mormon War in Illinois (1996) (8)
Writing the History of Space's Extreme Environment (2010) (8)
Looking Backward, Looking Forward: Forty Years of US Human Spaceflight Symposium (2001) (8)
Spaceflight: The Development of Science, Surveillance, and Commerce in Space (2012) (7)
Organizing for the Use of Space: Historical Perspectives on a Persistent Issue ed. by Roger D. Launius (1997) (7)
After Columbia: The Space Shuttle Program and the Crisis in Space Access (2004) (7)
An unintended consequence of the IGY: Eisenhower, Sputnik, the Founding of NASA (2010) (7)
Senator James Murray Mason: Defender of the Old South@@@Alexander William Doniphan: Portrait of a Missouri Moderate (1997) (7)
Exploring the Unknown: Selected Documents in the History of the US Civil Space Program. Volume 5; Exploring the Cosmos (2001) (7)
Hubble's legacy : reflections by those who dreamed it, built it, and observed the universe with it (2014) (6)
Kingdom on the Mississippi Revisited: Nauvoo in Mormon History (1997) (6)
Looking backward/looking forward: space flight at the turn of the new millennium (2003) (5)
Venus-Earth-Mars: Comparative Climatology and the Search for Life in the Solar System (2012) (5)
Historical Dimensions of the Space Age (2004) (5)
Imprisoned in a Tesseract: NASA's Human Spaceflight Effort and the Prestige Trap (2012) (5)
Project Apollo in American Memory and Myth (2000) (5)
Space stations for the United States: An idea whose time has come—and gone? (2008) (5)
A significant moment for the space age (2007) (5)
The Railroads and the Space Program Revisited: Historical Analogues and the Stimulation of Commercial Space Operations (2014) (5)
NASA's Quest for Human Spaceflight Popular Appeal* (2017) (5)
Exploring the Unknown (2004) (5)
Robots in Space (2008) (5)
Powering Space Exploration: U.S. Space Nuclear Power, Public Perceptions, and Outer Planetary Probes (2008) (4)
Neil Armstrong (1930–2012) (2012) (4)
Wilbur and Orville Wright: A Bibliography Commemorating the One-Hundredth Anniversary of the First Powered Flight, December 17, 1903. Revised (2002) (4)
James Van Allen: The First Eight Billion Miles (2008) (4)
Managing the unmanageable: Apollo, space age management and American social problems (2008) (4)
The Personal Correspondence of Sam Houston: Volume III: 1848-1852@@@Doniphan's Epic March: The 1st Missouri Volunteers in the Mexican War (2000) (4)
NASA History and the Challenge of Keeping the Contemporary Past (1999) (3)
Perfect World, Perfect Societies - The Persistent Goal of Utopia in Human Spaceflight (2003) (3)
Human Aspirations to Expand into Space (2019) (3)
Power of Analogies for Advancing Space Scientific Knowledge (2014) (3)
Toward the Poles: A Historiography of Scientific Exploration during the International Polar Years and the International Geophysical Year (2010) (3)
Starman: The Truth Behind the Legend of Yuri Gagarin (2012) (3)
Exploring the solar system : the history and science of planetary exploration (2013) (3)
National Aeronautics and Space Administration Office of Policy and Plans NASA History Office NASA History Fact Sheet A BRIEF HISTORY OF THE NATIONAL AERONAUTICS AND SPACE ADMINISTRATION (2001) (3)
Denying the Apollo Moon Landings: Conspiracy and Questioning in Modern American History (2010) (3)
Abandoned in Place: Interpreting the U.S. Material Culture of the Moon Race (2009) (3)
Public History Wars, the “One Nation/One People” Consensus, and the Continuing Search for a Usable Past (2013) (3)
Opposing Apollo: Political Resistance to the Moon Landings (2014) (3)
Mormons and mormonism in U.S. government documents: A bibliography (1990) (3)
Hypersonic Flight: Evolution from X-15 to Space Shuttle (2003) (3)
Planning the post-Apollo space program: Are there lessons for the present? (2012) (2)
Spaceflight and Religion (2013) (2)
To Reach the High Frontier (2015) (2)
Managing NASA's Complex Space Flight Programs: The Apollo Experience (2007) (2)
Reaching for the Moon (2019) (2)
An Ambivalent Rejection: Baptism for the Dead and the Reorganized Church Experience (1990) (2)
From Fishing Hamlet to Red Planet: India’s Space Journey ed. by P. V. Manoranjan Rao et al. (review) (2017) (2)
An early Latter Day Saint history: The book of John Whitmer kept by commandment (1980) (2)
“We Will Learn More About the Earth by Leaving It than by Remaining on It.” NASA and the Forming of an Earth Science Discipline in the 1960s (2016) (2)
Near-Earth Objects: Finding Them Before They Find Us, by Donald H. Yeomans (2013) (2)
The Strange Career of the American Spaceplane: The Long History of Wings and Wheels in Human Space Operations (2013) (2)
Establishing open rights in the Antarctic and outer space: Cold War rivalries and geopolitics in the 1950s and 1960s (2017) (2)
Covered Wagon Women: Diaries and Letters from the Western Trails, 1840-1890, vol 1., 1840-1849 Kenneth L. Holmes, ed. and comp. (1986) (2)
Underlying assumptions of human spaceflight in the United States (2008) (2)
Historic documents on the presidency, 1776–1989 (1991) (2)
A History of Aerodynamics and Its Impact on Flying Machines (1999) (2)
IS IT TIME TO RECONSIDER KENNEDY 'S SPACE POLICY? A POST -COLD WAR, POST -MODERN PERSPECTIVE (2003) (1)
Charlie Finley: The Outrageous Story of Baseball's Super Showman (2010) (1)
The American Home Missionary Society Collection and Mormonism (1983) (1)
Human spaceflight : projects Mercury, Gemini, and Apollo (2008) (1)
NACA/NASA and the National Unitary Wind Tunnel Plan, 1945-1965 (2002) (1)
Exploring the Unknown: Selected Documents in the History of the U.S. Civilian Space Program: Volume 2; External Relationships (2013) (1)
Seasons in the Sun: The Story of Big League Baseball in Missouri (2002) (1)
A Transforming Force: Military Aviation and Utah in World War II (1995) (1)
Introduction: Rise of Global Scientific Inquiry in the International Polar and Geophysical Years (2010) (1)
Technology in Space (2008) (1)
A waning of technocratic faith - NASA and the politics of the Space Shuttle decision, 1967-1972 (1992) (1)
"We can lick gravity, but sometimes the paperwork is overwhelming" - NASA, oral history, and the contemporary past (2002) (1)
The 1910 Los Angeles Airshow: The Beginnings of Air Awareness in the West (1995) (1)
Space Technology and the Rise of the US Surveillance State (2014) (1)
Home on the Range: The U.S. Air Force Range in Utah, a Unique Military Resource (1991) (1)
Atlas: The Ultimate Weapon (2007) (1)
Into the Unknown Together: The DOD, NASA, and Early Spaceflight (review) (2006) (1)
A Review of Apollo Legacy: Perspectives on the Moon Landings (2020) (1)
Planes, trains, and automobiles - Choosing transportation modes in the twentieth century (2000) (1)
The Mormon Quest for a Perfect Society at Lamoni, Iowa, 1870-1890 (1984) (1)
Climate change and spaceflight: an historiographical review (2011) (1)
The Reorganized Church, the Decade of Decision, and the Abilene Paradox (1998) (1)
NASA & the exploration of space : with works from the NASA art collection (1998) (1)
The U.S. Space Program and American Society (1970) (1)
Return of the Renaissance man - The disintegration and reintegration of the engineering discipline (1994) (1)
NASA Looks to the East American Intelligence Estimates of Soviet Capabilities and Project Apollo (2001) (1)
Exploring the Solar System (2013) (1)
Introduction: Partnerships for Innovation (2018) (1)
An Unintended Consequence of the IGY: Eisenhower, Sputnik, and the Founding of NASA (2007) (1)
Father Figure: Joseph Smith III and the Creation of the Reorganized Church (1990) (1)
U.S. Military uses of space, 1945–1991: Jeffrey Richelson, Consultant and Project Director. Thomas S. Blanton, Malcolm Byrne, Margarita S. Studemeister and Lisa Thompson, series editors. David A. Wallace, series technical editor. Alexandria:Chadwyck-Healey, Inc. and the National Security Archive, 19 (1993) (0)
Jeffrey A. Engel. Cold War at 30,000 Feet: The Anglo-American Fight for Aviation Supremacy (2008) (0)
Apollo 13/Journey to the Moon/Mars and Back (review) (2007) (0)
Lady Astronauts, Lady Engineers, and Naked Ladies: Women and the American Space Community During the Cold War, 1960s–1980s by Karin Hilck (review) (2021) (0)
Philip Lawrence and David Thornton. Deep Stall: The Turbulent Story of Boeing Commercial Airlines. Aldershot, U.K.: Ashgate Publishing, 2005. xii + 160 pp. ISBN 0-7546-4626-2, $79.95 (2006) (0)
Dreams of flight - Western American newspapers' views of the possibilities and limitations of aviation, 1910-1930 (2001) (0)
Reinterpreting Exploration: The West in the World, by Dane Kennedy (2015) (0)
Book Review:The Sputnik Challenge: Eisenhower's Response to the Soviet Satellite Robert A. Divine (1994) (0)
Erratum (1964) (0)
Space Exploration (2016) (0)
Advising presidents on science when presidents rebuff science advice (2017) (0)
"Charlie Finley Has Soured My Stomach for Baseball": Charles O. Finley versus His Players (2008) (0)
The View from Washington (1999) (0)
Renewing Unilever: Transformation and Tradition (review) (2006) (0)
Frontiers of Flight, U.S. Industrial Policy, and Free Markets (2012) (0)
Review of: [Book Review:] Realizing Tomorrow: The Path to Private Spaceflight by Chris Dubbs and Emeline Paat-Dahlstrom (2013) (0)
Fledging Wings: Aviation Comes to the Southwest, 1910–1930 (1995) (0)
Envisioning the Earth: Conceptions of this Planet from the Flat Earth to Gaia (2011) (0)
Crossroads of the West: Aviation Comes to Utah, 1910-40 (1990) (0)
Andrew Smith, Moondust: In Search of the Men Who Fell to Earth, Bloomsbury Publishing, London, ISBN 0-7475-6368-5 (310pp., £17.99). (2005) (0)
Presidential Leadership in the Development of the U.S. Space Program (1994) (0)
The Wright Brothers, Government Support for Aeronautical Research, and the Progress of Flight (2001) (0)
Constructing the Origins of the Solar System: Scientific Knowledge and Public Perceptions (2010) (0)
Unveiling the Outer Solar System (2012) (0)
Cultures in Conflict (2021) (0)
Deep Stall: The Turbulent Story of Boeing Commercial Airlines (review) (2006) (0)
The National Labs: Science in an American System, 1947–1974. By Peter J. Westwick. (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2003. xii, 403 pp. $49.95, isbn 0-674-00948-7.) (2004) (0)
Dreams of Other Worlds: The Amazing Story of Unmanned Space Exploration. (2014) (0)
Notes from the Field (2004) (0)
Space science: Lunar star (2014) (0)
An Insider’s View of Planetary Science (2018) (0)
Review of: [Book review:] Beyond the God Particle (2014) (0)
Review of: [Book Review:] Plane Queer: Labor, Sexuality, and AIDS in the History of Male Flight Attendants (2014) (0)
The Millenarian World of Early Mormonism@@@The Essential Joseph Smith (1996) (0)
The 1838 Mormon War in Missouri (1988) (0)
Imagining Outer Space: European Astroculture in the Twentieth Century ed. by Alexander C. T. Geppert (review) (2013) (0)
Have We Exhausted What We Can Do with the International Space Station (2013) (0)
Project Apollo: NASA, and Technological Versimilitude (2014) (0)
Final Countdown: NASA and the End of the Space Shuttle Program, Pat Duggins, University Press of Florida, Gainesville, 2007 (265pp., $24.95, ISBN: 978-08130-3146-0) (2008) (0)
Creating Open Territorial Rights in Cold and Icy Places: (2018) (0)
Abandoned in Place: Interpreting the Material Culture of the Space Race (2008) (0)
Review of: [Book review:] A Single Sky: How an International Community Forged the Science of Radio Astronomy (2014) (0)
Nathalia Holt. Rise of the Rocket Girls: The Women Who Propelled Us, from Missiles to the Moon to Mars. xiii + 337 pp., plates, notes, index. New York: Little, Brown & Company, 2016. $16.99 (paper). ISBN 9780316338905. (2019) (0)
The Birth of NASA (2013) (0)
Differing Visions: Dissenters in Mormon History@@@The Ritualization of Mormon History and Other Essays (1995) (0)
Responding to Apollo: America’s Divergent Reactions to the Moon Landings (2018) (0)
Apollo 13/journey to the Moon/mars and Back (1994-2006) (2007) (0)
Pretender to the Throne? R. C. Evans and the Problem of Presidential Succession in the Reorganization (1997) (0)
Affidavits Revisited (1991) (0)
Conclusion: What Matters? (2018) (0)
Developing a Spatial History of Spaceflight: The Smithsonian Atlas of Space Exploration (2010) (0)
Proud! Thrilled! Happy! (2013) (0)
And There Came Prophets in the Land Again: the Life of Joseph Smith IIi, 1832-1914, Mormon Reformer. (Volumes I and II). (1982) (0)
A Selected Annotated Bibliography on Martian Exploration (1996) (0)
Astronomy By Satellite (2014) (0)
Collections (2004) (0)
Panel Discussion: Historical Research--A "How To" Primer (2010) (0)
Worldwide science and technology advice to the highest levels of governments: Edited by William T. Golden. New York: Pergamon Press, 1991. 430p, map, acknowledgments, index. ISBN 0-08-040407-3. Price: $60.00 hardcover, $30.00 paperback (1992) (0)
Robert J. Rusnak, Walter Hines Page and THE WORLD'S WORK, 1900-1913 (1983) (0)
Advising presidents on science when presidents rebuff science advice (2016) (0)
Taking off : a century of manned flight (2003) (0)
Returning Scientific Data to Earth: The Parallel but Unequal Careers of Genesis and Stardust and the Problem of Sample Return to Earth (2013) (0)
T. Keith Glennan (1995) (0)
A Prophet’s Progress (1989) (0)
"We can lick gravity, but sometimes the paperwork is overwhelming": NASA, Oral History,and the Contemporary Past (2003) (0)
Edward J. Roach. The Wright Company: From Invention to Industry. (2015) (0)
One Man’s Air Force: The Experience of Byron Dussler at Wendover Field, Utah, 1941-46 (1986) (0)
Is There a New Mormon History? (1992) (0)
Author index for 1994 (1994) (0)
The "New Social History" and the "New Mormon History": Reflections on Recent Trends (1994) (0)
Ogden: Junction City (1986) (0)
Realizing the New Aerospace History (2014) (0)
Notices of Books (2015) (0)
Red Harvest: The Communist Party and American Farmers (1983) (0)
Infinity Beckoned: Adventuring through the Inner Solar System, 1969-1989. By Jay Gallentine (2016) (0)
Review of: [Book review:] Blue Sky Metropolis: The Aerospace Century in Southern California (2013) (0)
Exploring the Terrestrial Planets (2012) (0)
Space Power Integration: Perspectives from Space Weapons Officers (2009) (0)
Cold War at 30,000 Feet: The Anglo-American Fight for Aviation Supremacy (review) (2008) (0)
Returning Scientific Data to Earth (2012) (0)
Is Joseph Smith Relevant to the Community of Christ? (2006) (0)
Review of: [Book Review:] Inventing the American Astronaut (2014) (0)
The Papers of the Prophet (1990) (0)
Go for Launch! an Illustrated History of Cape Canaveral (2009) (0)
“‘And Now for Something Completely Different’: Creating Twenty-first Century Space Access” (2012) (0)
Table of Contents (2017) (0)
Citizens Against the MX: Public Languages in the Nuclear Age (1994) (0)
Chronology of Selected Highlights in American Human Spaceflights, 1961-1995 (1996) (0)
History of rocketry and astronautics : proceedings of the fifteenth and sixteenth History Symposia of the International Academy of Astronautics, Rome, Italy, 1981 ; Paris, France, 1982 (1994) (0)
Space science: Beyond the heliopause (2015) (0)
Review of: [Book Review:] GPS Declassified: From Smart Bombs to Smartphones, by Richard D. Easton and Eric F. Frazier (2015) (0)
Joseph Smith III: Pragmatic Prophet (1988) (0)
Methods and Motives: Joseph Smith III’s Opposition to Polygamy, 1860–90 (1987) (0)
Book Review: Pursuit of Power: NASA’s Propulsion Systems Laboratory No. 1 and 2 (2013) (0)
Keep Watching the Skies! The Story of Operation Moonwatch and the Dawn of the Space Age. By W. Patrick McCray. (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2008. xvi, 308 pp. $29.95, ISBN 978-0-691-12854-2.) (2009) (0)
Designing the Shuttle: Living within the Political System (2013) (0)
Space Shuttle Legacy: How We Did It and What We Learned (2013) (0)
Review: The Final Mission: Preserving NASA’s Apollo Sites by Lisa Westwood (2017) (0)
Wild Bill Hickman and the Mormon Frontier (1989) (0)
Jeffrey A. Engel. Cold War at 30,000 Feet: The Anglo-American Fight for Aviation Supremacy. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press. ix + 351 pp. ISBN 13 978-0-674-02461-8, $35.00 (cloth) (2008) (0)
Fallen Astronauts: Heroes Who Died Reaching for the Moon. By Colin Burgess and Kate Doolan (2017) (0)
Review of: [Book review:] Blue Sky Metropolis: The Aerospace Century in Southern California by Peter J. Westwick (2013) (0)
Defining the Shuttle: The Spaceplane Tradition (2013) (0)
Alexander William Doniphan: Portriat of a Missouri Moderate@@@Doniphan's Expedition: An Account of the Conquest of Mexico (1998) (0)
Letters (1990) (0)
Shuttle-Mir, CD-ROM Supplement (2001) (0)
Religion in space (2022) (0)
Highlights of Human Spaceflight: The United States (2020) (0)
Joseph Smith III and the Kirtland Temple Suit (1985) (0)
"A Vast Scientific Harvest"? Apollo and the Expansion of Knowledge about the Moon (2006) (0)
Collections (2004) (0)
Michael J. Neufeld. Spaceflight: A Concise History. (MIT Press Essential Knowledge Series.) xiii + 233 pp., notes, index. Cambridge, Mass./London: MIT Press, 2018. £11.95 (paper). ISBN 9780262536332. (2019) (0)
Saturn V: The Complete Manufacturing and Test Records Plus Supplemental Material (2008) (0)
Venus-Earth-Mars (2012) (0)
Global Instantaneous Telecommunications and the Development of Satellite Technology (2018) (0)
Nineteenth-Century Mormon Architecture and City Planning C. Mark Hamilton (1997) (0)
Space Science: First three round the Moon (2017) (0)
Subject index for 1994 (1994) (0)
Race to the Moon: The Daring Adventure of Apollo 8 (2006) (0)
Developing New Approaches to Planetary Exploration (2012) (0)
First Moon landing was nearly a US–Soviet mission (2019) (0)
Managing Planetary Science (2012) (0)
Military periodicals: United States and selected international journals and newspapers: Edited by Michael E. Unsworth. New York: Greenwood Press, 1990. 404 pp. ISBN 0-313-25920-8. $75.00. (1991) (0)

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