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I'm having trouble verifying birth and death dates for James Everett Lipp. They are currently sourced to Encyclopedia Astronautica; that link tells us the site hasn't been updated since 2019 and is out of date and no longer maintained. As you can see from that source, the birth and death date appear to be cited to space historian Roger D. Launius, NASA Chief Historian, NASA History Office. The link is currently dead. One would think there would be at least one obituary from 1993 (the death date) available. The assumption is that the subject spent most of his life in Pasadena and Santa Monica, California. One very old source dating from the beginning of his career says he was living there and had a wife and child. Considering his importance in military history, there should be something more about his life and death. There's a lot of sources about his career and work at RAND, but not much else. Can anyone else confirm and verify his birth and death dates? Viriditas ( talk) 06:46, 8 August 2023 (UTC)
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I'm having trouble verifying birth and death dates for James Everett Lipp. They are currently sourced to Encyclopedia Astronautica; that link tells us the site hasn't been updated since 2019 and is out of date and no longer maintained. As you can see from that source, the birth and death date appear to be cited to space historian Roger D. Launius, NASA Chief Historian, NASA History Office. The link is currently dead. One would think there would be at least one obituary from 1993 (the death date) available. The assumption is that the subject spent most of his life in Pasadena and Santa Monica, California. One very old source dating from the beginning of his career says he was living there and had a wife and child. Considering his importance in military history, there should be something more about his life and death. There's a lot of sources about his career and work at RAND, but not much else. Can anyone else confirm and verify his birth and death dates? Viriditas ( talk) 06:46, 8 August 2023 (UTC)