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October 6, 1957
NASA's Chief Historian, Dr. Roger D. Launius
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NASA's Chief Historian, Dr. Roger D. Launius, joins us this evening on the 40th anniversary of the launch of Sputnik, the world's first artificial satellite. He will discuss the early days of space exploration, the Soviet-American space-race, and current Russian-American collaborative projects, including missions on the Mir space station.
Dr. Launius's office is responsible for preparing books and special studies on U.S. aerospace history, managing the NASA Historical Reference Collection, and providing historical services to the NASA staff and public. Dr. Launius's most recently published work is entitled "Spaceflight and the Myth of Presidential Leadership."
To see how The New York Times covered the event and to hear the mysterious beeping sound that fascinated and disturbed the nation, visit the special Times Looks Back: Sputnik package (Keyword: Times Looks Back).
The address of NASA's web site, "Sputnik, the 40th Anniversary," is http://www.hq.nasa.gov/office/pao/History/sputnik/.
Welcome Dr. Launius.
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Roger D. Launius is chair of the Division of Space History at the Smithsonian Institution’s National Air and Space Museum in Washington, D.C. Between 1990 and 2002 he served as chief historian of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration. A graduate of Graceland College in Lamoni, Iowa, he received his Ph.D. from Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, in 1982.
He has written or edited several books on aerospace history, including Space Stations: Base Camps to the Stars (Smithsonian Books, 2003), which received the AIAA’s history manuscript prize; Flight: A Celebration of 100 Years in Art and Literature (Welcome Books, 2003), edited with Anne Collins Goodyear, Anthony M. Springer, and Bertram Ulrich; To Reach the High Frontier: A History of U.S. Launch Vehicles (University Press of Kentucky, 2002), with Dennis R. Jenkins; Imagining Space: Achievements, Possibilities, Projections, 1950-2050 (Chronicle Books, 2001), with Howard E. McCurdy; Reconsidering Sputnik: Forty Years Since the Soviet Satellite (Harwood Academic, 2000), with John M. Logsdon and Robert W. Smith; Innovation and the Development of Flight (Texas A&M University Press, 1999); NASA & the Exploration of Space (Stewart, Tabori, & Chang, 1998);