Books by Roger D. Launius

Howard E. McCurdy is professor of public affairs at the American University in Washington, D.C. He is the author of three previous books on the U.S. space program (The Space Station Decision, Inside NASA, and Space and the American Imagination) and coeditor, with Roger D. Launius, of Spaceflight and the Myth of Presidential Leadership. Roger D. Launius has served as chief historian for the National Aeronautics and Space Administration for many years. A former civilian staff historian for the United States Air Force, he has lectured widely to military, scholarly, and general audiences on a range of historical subjects. Vice-president for publications of the American Astronautical Society and editor of the journal Space Times, he has written and edited numerous books on aerospace history, including NASA & the Exploration of Space, Frontiers of Space Exploration, and Using Space. Ray Bradbury is the author of more than thirty books, including THE MARTIAN CHRONICLES, FAHRENHEIT 451, THE ILLUSTRATED MAN, and SOMETHING WICKED THIS WAY COMES, and in 2000 received the National Book Foundation's Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters. He lives with his wife in Los Angeles, California.