Dr. Ross Irwin received his bachelor of science in geological sciences from Virginia Tech in 1997 and a PhD in environmental sciences from the University of Virginia in 2005. He completed a post-doctoral appointment at the Center for Earth and Planetary Studies in 2010. For two years he worked...

Dr. Jeremy R. Kinney is the Chair of the Aeronautics Department of the Smithsonian Institution’s National Air and Space Museum. He curates three collections at the Museum: interwar and World War II American military aviation, air racing, and aircraft propulsion. They number approximately 4,000...

Mr. Lee is a curator in the Aeronautics Department of the Smithsonian Institution’s National Air and Space Museum. He curates two collections: sport and recreation aircraft including homebuilts, hang gliders, ultralights, and sailplanes, and the collection of Japanese World War II aircraft....

Dr. Jennifer Levasseur received her BA in history from the University of Michigan in 1999, an MA in American Studies from The George Washington University in 2002, and PhD in history at George Mason University in 2014. Her dissertation, Pictures By Proxy: Images of Exploration and the First...

Dr. Cathleen Lewis is curator of International Space Programs and Spacesuits at the Smithsonian Institution’s National Air and Space Museum, specializing in Soviet and Russian programs. Lewis has completed both bachelor’s and a master’s degrees in Russian and East European Studies at Yale...

Dr. Emily Martin is a postdoctoral fellow in the Center for Earth and Planetary Studies studying the ancient tectonic history of Saturn’s moon Enceladus. Reconstructing Enceladus’s early tectonic history will provide insight into how Enceladus developed into one of the few currently geologically...

Christopher Moore received his BA in European History from the University of California, San Diego, and his MA in American History from George Mason University. He curates the Museum’s collection of aircraft armament—including guns, cannon, missiles, and bombs—representing the...

Dr. Alex Morgan is a geologist who uses spacecraft data, computer modeling, and field work to decipher the environmental conditions present during the evolution of planetary landscapes. He is primarily focused on the geologic history of the martian surface - Mars today is a cold, dry, global...

Dr. Teasel Muir-Harmony is a historian of science and technology and curator of the Apollo Spacecraft Collection. Before coming to the Smithsonian Institution, she earned a Ph.D.from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and held positions atthe Center for History of Physics at the...

Dr. Valerie Neal joined the Museum as a curator in 1989 and is responsible for human spaceflight artifact collections from the Space Shuttle era and International Space Station, most prominently the orbiter Discovery...