Roger Launius

ROGER D. LAUNIUS is an American historian who has written or edited more than thirty books on aerospace history.

Launius is a recipient of the NASA Exceptional Service Medal and the Exceptional Achievement Medal. He earned a PhD in history from Louisiana State University in 1982, served as chief historian of NASA from 1990 to 2002, and retired in 2017 as Associate Director for Collections and Curatorial Affairs at the Smithsonian Institution’s National Air and Space Museum in Washington, D.C.

Roger Launius’s books are published by Turner Publishing.

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