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Dr. Roger D. Launius, Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum, is a member of the Radioisotope Power Systems Committee, National Research Council of the National Academies.
Cambridge Planetary Science series, No. 11
Part of a series published by AltaMira Press in partnership with the American Association for State and Local History.
Available from the UK, ISBN 978 1 84011 736 3, £9.99.
Conquistadors of the Sky celebrates the aviation achievements of 21 Latin American nations over the last 100 years, making this chronicle of heroic ventures and epic flights the best reference available on the subject.