Our staff write books on a wide variety of aviation- and space-related topics, including our 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 Cambridge University Press (Cambridge Centennial of Flight series), Palgrave Macmillan (Palgrave Studies in the History of Science Technology), Texas A&M University Press (Centennial of Flight series), and the University of Missouri Press (Sports and American Culture).
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Souvenir book for the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum's Steven F. Udvar Hazy Center
A concise, yet detailed, introduction to the X-15 that is definitive and beautifully illustrated.
AIAA Library of Flight
A publication by the staff of the National Air and Space Museum.
Cambridge Centennial of Flight series, edited by John Anderson and Von Hardesty
Edited by Michael J. Neufeld, with contributions from Margaret Weitekamp, Matthew Hersch, James Spiller, Andrew Jenks, Guillaume de Syon, Trevor S. Rockwell, Valerie Neal, Jennifer Ross-Nazzal, and Margaret Lazarus Dean.
A children's book worked on by members of the National Air and Space Museum staff.
NASA Aeronautics Book Series, NASA SP-2011-593.
Available in digital edition from NASA History Office--click on title to see link.
A publication by a staff member of the National Air and Space Museum.
Palgrave Studies in the History of Science and Technology
From 2008-2009 John M. Logsdon held the Charles A. Lindbergh Chair in Aerospace History at the National Air and Space Museum.
