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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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
First edition 1976, revised 1981, 1985, and 1991
Originally published by Putnam, 1983; reprinted by Smithsonian Institution Press, 1984; reprinted by Paladwr Press, 1997.
First published by Brassey's: Putnam Aeronautical; first American edition, 1997.
Originally printed by Putnam, 1972; revised reprinting by Smithsonian Institution Press, 1982; reprinted Paladwr Press, 1998.
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 book by members of the National Air and Space Museum staff.
Volume 9 in the Artefacts: Studies in the History of Science and Technology series