History of Science Series – Let's Sell the Space Station
Alex Roland
Tuesday, 09 Nov 2004 at 8:00 pm – Sun Room, Memorial Union
Alex Roland spent eight years (1973-1981) as a historian with the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, and has written extensively on this topic. He has been honored with the Harold K. Johnson Professor of Military History, Military History Institute, U.S. Army War College; a Fellow at the Dibner Institute for the History of Science and Technology, Massachusetts Institute of Technology; and the Dr. Leo Shifrin Professor of Naval-Military HIstory, U.S. Naval Academy. He is the author of The Military-industrial Complex and edited Atmospheric Flight in the Twentieth Century. He is a professor of history at Duke University, where he received his doctorate.
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