Roger Launius on "Remembering Apollo: The American South and the Moon Landings"

Friday, March 29, 2019 The event started -1826 days ago

9:10 AM 9:45 AM

Student Services Building

Room 112

Roger D. Launius is Principal of Launius Historical Services. Between 2002 and 2017 he worked in several positions at the Smithsonian Institution’s National Air and Space Museum in Washington, D.C., most recently as Associate Director for Collections and Curatorial Affairs. Between 1990 and 2002 he served as chief historian of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration. During at 35-year career as a U.S. government historian, he has been involved in many issues relating to public history and the history of aerospace technology. He has written or edited more than thirty books on aerospace history, most recently The Smithsonian History of Space Exploration: Discoveries from the Ancient World to the Extraterrestrial Future (Smithsonian Books, 2018), NASA Spaceflight: A History of Innovation (Palgrave Macmillan, 2018), and Historical Analogs for the Stimulation of Space Commerce (NASA, 2014). His forthcoming book, Apollo’s Legacy: The Moon Landings in Perspective (Smithsonian Books, 2019), focusing on the meaning of Apollo after fifty years. 


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Category
Conference/Lecture
department
College of Arts Humanities and Social Sciences, History
Audience
Public, Students, Faculty and Staff, Alumni

Contact

Stephen Waring 256-8246310 This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

Venue

Student Services Building

301 Sparkman DriveHuntsville, AL 35899

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