Russell Lee earned a BA at Southwest Texas State University and an MA in American History at George Mason University. Lee curates the collections of sailplanes and gliders; ultralights and hang gliders; amateur-built sport aircraft; and Japanese aircraft from World War II. Lee chaired the Museum...

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...

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...

Emily 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 active...

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...

Alex 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 desert, but...

Teasel Muir-Harmony earned a Ph.D. in history of science and technology from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), an M.A. in history and philosophy of science from the University of Notre Dame, and a B.A. from the Great Books Program at St. John’s College. Before coming to the...

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

Dr. Allan A. Needell earned a BA in physics from Cornell University and a PhD in the history of science from Yale University. From 1978-81 he served as associate historian at the Center for History of Physics at the American Institute of Physics, where he had responsibility for a...

Dr. Michael J. Neufeld is a Senior Curator in the Space History Department. He served as Chair of the department from 2007 to 2011. Born in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada, he received history degrees from the University of Calgary and the University of British Columbia, before getting a Ph.D. in...