The National Air and Space Museum staff write a wide variety of aviation and space publications, including books on exhibitions; the collection; the history of science and technology; and planetary science. Curators also edit other titles, from the Smithsonian History of Aviation and Spaceflight series to children's books on flight. In addition, Museum curators edit book series with Texas A&M University Press and Cambridge University Press.

New Publications

		Analyzing Art and Aesthetics (Artefacts: Studies in the History of Science and Technology), edited by Anne Goodyear and Margaret Weitekamp, Smithsonian Institution Scholarly Press, 2013, hardcover ISBN 978-1935623137, $49.95, 7.4 x 10.3 inches, 312 pages. Volume 9 in the Artefacts: Studies in the History of Science and Technology series
		Alaska and the Airplane, A Century of Flight, by Julie Decker and Jeremy Kinney, photographs by Eric F. Long, Braun Publishing, 2013, hardcover ISBN 978-3-03768-141-2, $24.95, 9.5 x 9.5 inches, 128 pages.
		Pluto's Secret: An Icy World's Tale of Discovery, by Margaret Weitekamp with David DeVorkin, illustrated by Diane Kidd, Abrams Books for Young Readers, 2013, hardcover ISBN 978-1-4197-0423-9, $16.95, 10 x 10 inches, 40 pages.
		Exploring the Solar System: The History and Science of Planetary Exploration, edited by Roger D. Launius, Palgrave Macmillan, 2013, hardcover ISBN 978-1-137-27316-1, $85.00, 6.25 x 9.5 inches, 381 pages. Palgrave Studies in the History of Science and Technology

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