Publications
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).
You can explore more peer-reviewed articles, stories, and more with Smithsonian Research Online.
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Critical Issues in the History of Spaceflight
*NASA SP-2006-4702; document ID # 20060022843; order from https://www.sti.nasa.gov/cgi-bin/ordersti.pl
Dictatorship of the Air: Aviation Culture and the Fate of Modern Russia
Cambridge Centennial of Flight series, edited by John Anderson and Von Hardesty
Best of the National Air and Space Museum
A comprehensive visual tour of the most significant aircraft, rockets, and spacecraft in the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum in downtown DC, and the new Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center in Virginia.
Chuck Yeager and the Bell X-1: Breaking the Sound Barrier
Foreword by Chuck Yeager
Fundamentals of Aerodynamics, Fifth Edition
McGraw-Hill Series in Aeronautical and Aerospace Engineering
Rocketeers and Gentlemen Engineers: A History of the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics...and What Came Before
Written on the occasion of the 75th anniversary of the AIAA.
Showcasing Space
This book is part of the Artefacts: Studies in the History of Science and Technology series. This series is sponsored by the Science Museum in London, the Deutsches Museum in Munich, and the Smithsonian Institution in Washington DC. Michigan State University Press is the North American publisher.
Animals Aloft: Photographs from the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum
Building America's Hangar: The Design and Construction of the Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center
Distributed by Antique Collectors' Club.
