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STAIF-2007 Banquet Speaker
STAIF's organizing committee welcomes Dr. Roger D. Launius of the Smithsonian Institution's National Air and Space Museum as keynote speaker for the STAIF-2007 awards banquet. This year's banquet is scheduled for Tuesday, February 13th, 2007, at 7:30 pm, at the Hotel Albuquerque, in Albuquerque, NM. Dr. Launius's speech will focus on the three great ages of human exploration, beginning with the seagoing era of the European Renaissance through today's quest to conquer challenges presented by exploration into environments where artificial apparatus is required for survival.
Roger D. Launius
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 more than twenty books on aerospace history, including Critical Issues in the History of Spaceflight (Washington, DC: NASA SP-2006-4702, 2006); Space Stations: Base Camps to the Stars (Smithsonian Books, 2003), which received the AIAA’s history manuscript prize; Reconsidering a Century of Flight (University of North Carolina Press, 2003); To Reach the High Frontier: A History of U.S. Launch Vehicles (University Press of Kentucky, 2002); Imagining Space: Achievements, Possibilities, Projections, 1950-2050 (Chronicle Books, 2001); Reconsidering Sputnik: Forty Years Since the Soviet Satellite (Harwood Academic, 2000); Innovation and the Development of Flight (Texas A&M University Press, 1999); Frontiers of Space Exploration (Greenwood Press, 1998, rev. ed. 2004); Spaceflight and the Myth of Presidential Leadership (University of Illinois Press, 1997); and NASA: A History of the U.S. Civil Space Program (Krieger Publishing Co., 1994, rev. ed. 2001). He served as a consultant to the Columbia Accident Investigation Board in 2003 and presented the Harmon Memorial Lecture in Military History at the United States Air Force Academy in 2006. He is frequently consulted by the electronic and print media for his views on space issues, and has been a guest commentator on National Public Radio and all the major television networks.
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