Roger D. Launius

About The Author

Roger D. Launius is the associate director for collections and curatorial affairs, National Air and Space Museum, Smithsonian Institution.

Books by Roger D. Launius

Abandoned in Place

Preserving America's Space History

By Roland Miller
Foreword by Roger D. Launius / Introduction by Betsy Fahlman / Prologue by Bob Thall
Stenciled on many of the deactivated facilities at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, the evocative phrase “abandoned in place” indicates the structures that have been deserted. Some structures, too solid for any known method of demolition, stand empty and unused in the wake of the early period of...
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