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Roger D. Launius

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Roger D. Launius is a senior curator in 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 and worked as a civilian historian with the United States Air Force until 1990. He has written or edited more than twenty books on aerospace history, among others including "Smithsonian Atlas of Space Exploration" (HarperCollins,...

Keith Payne

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Keith Payne is a Social Psychologist at the University of North Carolina. He studies how inequality changes people. He is author of The Broken Ladder: How Inequality Affects the Way We Think, Live, and Die.