Roger D. Launius

1.3k total citations
126 papers, 570 citations indexed

About

Roger D. Launius is a scholar working on Astronomy and Astrophysics, Aerospace Engineering and Political Science and International Relations. According to data from OpenAlex, Roger D. Launius has authored 126 papers receiving a total of 570 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 83 papers in Astronomy and Astrophysics, 37 papers in Aerospace Engineering and 16 papers in Political Science and International Relations. Recurrent topics in Roger D. Launius's work include Space exploration and regulation (73 papers), Space Science and Extraterrestrial Life (58 papers) and Space Exploration and Technology (33 papers). Roger D. Launius is often cited by papers focused on Space exploration and regulation (73 papers), Space Science and Extraterrestrial Life (58 papers) and Space Exploration and Technology (33 papers). Roger D. Launius collaborates with scholars based in United States, Australia and Canada. Roger D. Launius's co-authors include Steven J. Dick, Howard E. McCurdy, Asif A. Siddiqi, James Rodger Fleming, David H. DeVorkin, Thomas G. Alexander, Joan Lisa Bromberg, Davis Bitton, Stephen H. Cutcliffe and Alex Roland and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Proceedings of the IEEE and The American Historical Review.

In The Last Decade

Roger D. Launius

94 papers receiving 436 citations

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Peers by citation overlap · career bar shows stage (early→late) cites · hero ref

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Roger D. Launius United States	12	345	113	80	70	51	126	570
Loyd S. Swenson United States	14	147 0.4×	71 0.6×	25 0.3×	39 0.6×	20 0.4×	31	377
Martin Ryle United Kingdom	11	131 0.4×	49 0.4×	116 1.4×	63 0.9×	2 0.0×	37	450
Lisa Messeri United States	10	117 0.3×	11 0.1×	51 0.6×	20 0.3×	18 0.4×	19	270
Catherine Westfall United States	10	26 0.1×	18 0.2×	56 0.7×	122 1.7×	5 0.1×	32	379
John Warren United States	13	18 0.1×	17 0.2×	68 0.8×	24 0.3×	6 0.1×	80	576
Bernhard Klein Germany	12	31 0.1×	84 0.7×	51 0.6×	33 0.5×		71	507
Edward Montgomery United States	12	93 0.3×	125 1.1×	32 0.4×	16 0.2×	11 0.2×	46	444
Richard M. Robinson United States	10	15 0.0×	20 0.2×	56 0.7×	23 0.3×	4 0.1×	52	423
Ian G. Stewart United Kingdom	6	49 0.1×	6 0.1×	31 0.4×	12 0.2×	3 0.1×	22	338
David Williams United Kingdom	8	10 0.0×	35 0.3×	95 1.2×	34 0.5×	30 0.6×	32	305

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20 of 20 papers shown

Launius, Roger D.. (2019). Nathalia Holt. Rise of the Rocket Girls: The Women Who Propelled Us, from Missiles to the Moon to Mars. xiii + 337 pp., plates, notes, index. New York: Little, Brown & Company, 2016. $16.99 (paper). ISBN 9780316338905.. Isis. 110(1). 209–210.

Launius, Roger D.. (2014). Opposing Apollo: Political Resistance to the Moon Landings. New Space. 2(2). 74–80. 2 indexed citations

Launius, Roger D.. (2012). Neil Armstrong (1930–2012). Nature. 489(7416). 368–368. 1 indexed citations

Launius, Roger D., et al.. (2010). “Astronaut Envy?” The U.S. Military’s Quest for a Human Mission in Space. 4(2). 1 indexed citations

Launius, Roger D.. (2010). Can we colonize the solar system? Human biology and survival in the extreme space environment. Endeavour. 34(3). 122–129. 10 indexed citations

Launius, Roger D., et al.. (2010). Charlie Finley: The Outrageous Story of Baseball's Super Showman.

Launius, Roger D.. (2010). Denying the Apollo Moon Landings: Conspiracy and Questioning in Modern American History. 48th AIAA Aerospace Sciences Meeting Including the New Horizons Forum and Aerospace Exposition. 1 indexed citations

Launius, Roger D.. (2008). American Spaceflight History's Master Narrative and the Meaning of Memory. NASA Special Publication. 4703. 353.

Launius, Roger D.. (2006). Interpreting the Moon Landings: Project Apollo and the Historians. History and Technology. 22(3). 225–255. 11 indexed citations

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Launius, Roger D., et al.. (2006). Is It Finally Time for Space Tourism?. Astropolitics. 4(3). 253–280. 10 indexed citations

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Launius, Roger D.. (2003). Kennedy's Space Policy Reconsidered: A Post-Cold War Perspective. 50(4). 16. 9 indexed citations

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Launius, Roger D.. (2003). Perfect World, Perfect Societies - The Persistent Goal of Utopia in Human Spaceflight. Journal of the British Interplanetary Society. 56. 338–349. 2 indexed citations

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Launius, Roger D.. (2003). Evolving public perceptions of spacelight in American culture. Acta Astronautica. 53(4-10). 823–831. 6 indexed citations

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Launius, Roger D.. (2002). Evolving Public Perceptions of Spaceflight in American Culture. 299. 1 indexed citations

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Launius, Roger D., et al.. (2002). Wilbur and Orville Wright: A Bibliography Commemorating the One-Hundredth Anniversary of the First Powered Flight, December 17, 1903. NASA Technical Reports Server (NASA). 2 indexed citations

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Launius, Roger D.. (1998). Frontiers of Space Exploration. Greenwood eBooks. 1 indexed citations

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Launius, Roger D., et al.. (1994). Differing visions : dissenters in Mormon history. University of Illinois Press eBooks. 4 indexed citations

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Launius, Roger D., et al.. (1992). Toward a history of the space shuttle. An annotated bibliography. STIN. 93. 19494. 4 indexed citations

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Launius, Roger D.. (1992). A waning of technocratic faith - NASA and the politics of the Space Shuttle decision, 1967-1972. NASA Technical Reports Server (NASA). 1 indexed citations

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Launius, Roger D.. (1983). The American Home Missionary Society Collection and Mormonism. BYU studies quarterly. 23(2). 14.

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